cleopatronising:

“Addiction is rooted in fear, and self-loathing, and faithlessness. It is human doubt when doubt finally wins out. And here’s the rub: getting clean is the easy part. Getting clean is thirty days, at most. It’s step one and it’s certain, fixed. It’s step two that is epic: now that I’m not getting high, who the hell am I? And what am I here for? And, oh yeah, all those fears and doubts and hurts that drove me to addiction in the first place? They’re still here. I’m still who I was when I first learned how to lose myself in heroin, in cocaine, in alcohol, or whatever else was available to obliterate any sense of myself. So what do I do with this life now?”

— David Simon, creator of The Wire