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Addiction and Community

A response to the article on the Delray beach recovery community that appeared in The New York Times November 16th, 2007…

The New York Times
November 26, 2007
Addiction and Community

To the Editor:

Addiction is an illness of isolation. Part of the antidote is community.

“In Florida, Addicts Find Home in an Oasis of Sobriety” (front page, Nov. 16) helps point out the value of recovering people depending on one another in their efforts to remain sober.

But to one who finds the recovering community around me in the Twin Cities essential to my own recovery from addiction, those who proclaim these communities to be “insular and cultish” are simply wrong.

In fact, where I live, work, pay taxes and send my three kids to school extends far beyond the recovering community. And that’s the point. When people like me get treatment and find sobriety, everybody benefits, especially the community.

William C. Moyers
Vice President, External Relations
Hazelden Foundation
St. Paul, Nov. 19, 2007