7/1/2020 blog

I don’t want to go into the details on this, but I briefly met a young opiate addict recently who was a bit angry his doctors were giving him medicine that didn’t work as well for his pain as opiates and then seemed to be blaming him for having opiate addiction.

I have real sympathy for addicts. Life is difficult, and some of us have damaged pasts.

But as my Mom says you have to grow up. There’s a famous line from “The Catcher in the Rye”: “Grow up Holden.” Yes.