ADDICT out of the dark and into the light

ADDICT:
out of the dark and into the light

by Chris Keeley,
photographer/social worker
in Washington, DC

some photos

"Love is something I never knew how to give back unless there was something in it for me." - Athey

Ron Athey - AIDS activist who performs live shows to erode public fear.

Biological mother abandoned my brother and I, we were put into a children's home. December 8th, 1966 - fake birth certificate. They make up a birthday for you. I celebrate my belly button birthday and my sobriety birthday on the same day. It has more significance: July 4th, 1985. Permanent address: Reno, Nevada. "Looking at myself in the mirror and seeing this really awful hideous sort of monster." - Klein

Traceous Klein - Down to wardrobe of one blanket in San Francisco, Traceous gets into insurance business after getting clean. Some recoverying addicts found her flopping around in a car where she was left to die by Mr. Right Now. They took her to the hospital and saved her life.

I feel sorry for those people who have such a strong tolerance for pain that they never give up. They die. Those addicts I know, many, many people that I grew up with, they are all dead. They were not able to say, 'I give up.'" - Acuna

A great man . . .

"So I went back anyway to California. I slammed the door, got out of the car, walked across the street, and this guy with hair down to his waist comes up to me, gets -- stands right in front of me, takes a nickel bag out of his pocket, sticks it in my pocket, and says, 'Welcome to San Francisco, Brother.' So I knew I had hit the Promised Land." - Moorhead

Grateful Dave died of AIDS before he could finish a lawsuit undertaking to make it clear to the world that the Fellowship of NA wrote the NA Basic Text and that rights derive from the author: the Fellowship. - Ed

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