Reddit mentions of The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin

Well money is money; I work in tech and have seen lots of conservative, Trump-loving, gun-toting IT people in my 20ish years (all in Seattle). More so lately, I suppose, but I work for small places that don't have much turnaround.

And I'd like to very respectfully disagree with any notion that someone "CAN'T" recover. I'd invite you to go to a handful of "open" (meaning you don't have to identify as an addict to go) AA or NA meetings and see the amount of people who have recovered to convince you otherwise. Or perhaps volunteer with a harm reduction organization like PHRA.

I'm also reading a great book by a well known redditor (in some circles at least) called "The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin" that details the author's recovery from a decade of IV drug use and prostitution on the streets of SF to being a decade-sober mother of 3 that works with addicts in the same neighborhoods. It's an enlightening read! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017QL9QSM/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Tracey is /u/traceyh415. Published author, recovering heroin addict, activist, substance abuse counselor (I think - or are you just doing the administrative side of things now, Tracey?), loving mother, and Mommy of /r/opiates. Plus all-around awesome person. She was even featured in the old HBO documentary, "Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street."

Here's her blog - http://traceyh415.blogspot.com/

And here's the Amazon page for her book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017QL9QSM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

And, lastly, here's the HBO documentary I mentioned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfP58clo1I

I posted another brief shit story somewhere else in this thread if you really wanna read about my experiences pooping. lol

Tracey Helton Mitchell (Tracey in that documentary) is now clean and married. http://amzn.com/B017QL9QSM

I really liked /u/traceyh415's The Big Fix. It's ten percent using, ninety percent recovery.