For all the years I did drugs I was almost never single. Feeding an addiction is easier as a two-person task, with a literal partner in crime. Those relationships—usually with men, usually older—were always tough and intense, frequently abusive, and filled with overwrought declarations of undying love, or hate. Alex was no exception, and the emotional riot of early sobriety combined with the fallout from my arrest only ratcheted up the dramatics and passion.
