Addiction

Maureen Ruhl pens, 'Sadly, a once vibrant and adoring son became a stranger. It was as though a black curtain had been placed upon our lives. We called the curtain addiction. This was a foe we had never suspected would creep into our family. We thought “other” people, strangers, criminals or persons on the lower economic scale may be affected but not us! 'Sitting across from him his disinterest and disengaging gaze met ours. The stare was vacant, blank and empty. It was as though our son was present physically but there was a void inside of him.'