The Tablet May 18, 2021
Having a deep religious faith can help victims overcome the nightmare of addiction, many experts say. (Photo: Unsplash)
WINDSOR TERRACE Michael Guardino experimented with drugs like cocaine and Ecstasy when he was an impressionable teenager trying to fit in with the “cool kids.” It was just a little bit here and there, but it started him on a painful path.
“It wasn’t something that I was really using heavily until I was about 22 or 23. I started taking prescription painkillers,” he recalled. “I was taking it for, I guess, two years until I realized that I’m depending on it.”