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The Other One Percent: How Definitions of Recovery Skew Statistics [thefix.com]

 

Recovery is not a term reserved only for those who choose and maintain the path of complete abstinence.

Inside a theatre, a stark visual appears:

Each year, only 1% of addicts are able to kick heroin and stay clean.

This quickly cuts to images of my former self deliberately counting syringes at the needle exchange site. I see a shadow I recognize as myself in active addiction. I can barely discern my gender, my clothing keenly styled to blend into the streets that I called home. As the lights in the theatre go on, I shift uncomfortably in my seat.

[For more on this story by Tracey Helton Mitchell, go to https://www.thefix.com/other-o...very-skew-statistics]

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