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Sep 2024
29m 36s

The World Under the World

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman
About this episode
All four of the people in this story are in recovery, but they spent years in the world of active drug addiction--a kind of world underneath the world. They’re aware of it in ways that most of us are not, and they agreed to describe it to me—what it feels like day to day, and its relentless demands. 
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