
In "The Weight of Air," David Poses shatters addiction myths with raw honesty. Former White House adviser Keith Humphreys called it "disarmingly blunt" while changing policing approaches nationwide. What if everything we believe about recovery is dangerously wrong?
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What does it feel like when your soul is being torn from your body? When every cell screams for relief that you know will destroy you? David Poses opens his story not with the glamour of drug use but with its brutal opposite-withdrawal. Confined to his mother's house, he scrapes residue from old heroin bags with the desperation of someone drowning. Six Klonopin barely touch the agony. His friend Rob suggests methadone, a slow taper, anything reasonable. David refuses. He's convinced he can white-knuckle his way through this nightmare alone. Then his father arrives with strangers who physically restrain him, dragging him to a hospital where his addictions are announced to a room full of clinical faces. They call it "tough love," but there's nothing loving about being treated like a criminal for suffering you didn't choose. This forced intervention strips away dignity and agency-the very things that prove essential to genuine recovery. The scene establishes a question that haunts the entire narrative: Can healing happen when it's imposed rather than chosen? As David is hauled away, the irony becomes clear-a system designed to help often begins by inflicting its own trauma.
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