![]() ![]() ![]() You might find this hard to do, if you’ve ever considered yourself powerful. They turn their lives over to the care of said. They admit they are powerless over drugs, that their lives have become unmanageable, that a Power greater than themselves can restore them to sanity. This to distinguish it from the afternoon group, which is called Group.Īt Steps, twenty guys work the program. The tea is made from milk thistle, an ambitious herb that is going to detoxify his liver, or at least try.įortified with sock tea, he attends his morning group, which is called Steps. He takes a small, sad pride in his bedmaking. ![]() He is given a multivitamin and a cup of herbal tea that smells like socks. In light of his last, spectacular failure, Darren is not invited to the party. Men file in and out of the nurse’s office, where the magic Jell-O shooters are dispensed. For years Darren has kept junkie’s hours, nodding off at nine a.m., at midday, at dusk.Īfter breakfast, meds are given. ![]() It is, arguably, the most useful part of the program, the dumb animal normality of living in daytime, sleeping at night. Beds are made, showers taken, breakfasts eaten. © MIT, Harold Edgerton, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ![]()
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