Abstract
When Caron Block meets people who don’t understand the struggle of drug addiction, she asks them to imagine that someone has wrapped their head with saran wrap. “You are desperate for a breath; you’d do anything to get that saran wrap off your face so you can breathe,” Block says. That’s how a person dealing with substance abuse feels when having a craving, she explains. “So how horrible is it to have a craving like that and know at the same time that if you shoot up you could die?” Block heard the saran wrap analogy while participating in a program at the Betty Ford Center that was designed for family members of those grappling with a substance use disorder.At the time, her son was receiving treatment for heroin addiction. He’s now 29 and has been sober for six years. Once he got sober, Block started to look into possible
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