In this week’s “A Piece of My Mind” column in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a specialist in addiction offers a riveting tale of his own tragic drug habit.
Dr. McCracken confesses to a daily, decade-long marijuana habit and three years of abusing opioids injected intravenously. But because of his extensive knowledge of addiction, he was able to convince himself that his drug use was not a risk.
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/an-addiction-expert-reveals-a-drug-habit/?src=mv