Out of options. When it happens to people ravaged by addiction, sometimes all I can offer them is my own encouragement. "It's never too late," I tell them. "Don't let go of hope."

I can't help it. What else is there to say when a child or a spouse or a parent is drowning in alcohol or sinking into the mire of illegal drugs and there is nothing anyone can do? Hope is free, and I've got plenty of it, in part because of my own despair so many years ago, just before I f ...

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