BEVERLY — To understand why Charles Peabody spends his free time hanging out with drug addicts, it helps to know what privilege means to him.
Originally it meant growing up in Beverly with advantages: Caring parents, private schooling, and a blueblood lineage that included Senator Henry Cabot Lodge . But none of that kept him from becoming a pill-popping, heroin-sniffing addict who’d get high before work, on highways, and in packed commuter rail cars until dope almost killed him.
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strange that in a story about an addict there is no mention of NA (narcotics anonymous) but only AA...AA is a great organization, and the 12 steps of recovery are as effective and essential to recovery as the subject of the article claims. NA is an offshoot of AA, and many find that NA (which considers alcohol a drug, so it is not excluded from the literatire or the steps to recovery) is more tuned in to the psychology and behavior of an ADDICT. recovery depends upon careful, thorough, and ongoing practice of the 12 steps, too :)