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Still Alive: One Man's Battle with Opiate Addiction
From Chris Harland-Dunaway | 04:08
One young man's near-death fall from a cliff, and the power of Straight Edge punk music, helped him escape prescription opiate addiction. His story reveals how and when young people acquire regulated opiates like Oxycontin and how the healthcare system has failed to protect addicts from themselves.
Willie was only a teenager when he started abusing painkillers. He was heading down the road of addiction. As the nation grapples with an opiate epidemic, Willie’s story offers a look at the Straight Edge culture that helped him resist drugs. But Willie’s reckoning with addiction would have never happened without the grim serendipity of a terrible accident.