Joined a gym. The last go-round of this was several years ago and ended badly. Somehow my plan of never exercising consciously after getting out of eighth grade didn't work out for me. Oops
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I saw a comment by Aaron Sorkin about Hoffman, and I thought it was really good, especially coming from someone with addiction issues himself. He said that Hoffman didn't die of a heroin overdose. He died of heroin. It's not like if he'd taken the proper dose he'd be fine. It's really a nice tribute.
Yeah. Arguing about dosages, tainted batches, blah blah, doesn't mean anything. A better conversation to have would be about the nature of addiction and relapses and how a lot of us live in a culture where admitting that when you use [insert substance here] the pleasure centers in your brain light up like a Christmas tree and you need help to keep from totally fucking your life up in pursuit of that is seen as being weak or stupid or selfish or whatever the fuck. Or a discussion about how to help someone who's addicted or how to deal with unrecovered addicts in your life.
And a lot of times people don't want to see warning signs. And sometimes there aren't any. And instead of talking about tragedies, maybe we should do something to try and prevent them. There are so many things that would make things like this less common, but it's much easier to mourn people and things than it is to change them.
In the case of this particular death, we're talking about someone who got sober at 22 or 23 and spent more than two decades in recovery. This was a tough guy who fought whatever demons he had for a very long time, and unfortunately they just won out
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Sorkin's tribute
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