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Eliza Player

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I left college before graduating in a snowstorm of psychedelics and stimulants, before gravitating towards the underbelly of New Orleans. I lived a number of years saturated in Jameson and heroin, making my living stripping my way down Bourbon, searching for my next fix. As Hurricane Katrina approached, I did not even consider evacuating, and those 13 dark days following the storm eventually began my path to recovery. Clean for five years now, I write about addiction and recovery. I finally graduated from college, with a BA in Mass Communication and a minor in Journalism. I worked for a few small newspapers before landing a gig writing and curating news for RecoveryNowTV. That position opened up a lot of doors for me, and led me to partneri ...more

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Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir

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“Life is a conundrum of events and happenstance sometimes that only seems to make sense as time goes on to reveal the truths to our often reluctant and hazy minds.”
― Eliza Player, Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir

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“One can only keep this type of life up for so long without cracking all over, like a broken car window, as you are still clinging to some adherence of your old shape, but you are shattered just the same.”
― Eliza Player, Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir

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“Sometimes, looking at the world through the eyes of a junkie is much like watching television; you see what is going on in the story but you are often completely detached from the situation as if you were merely watching a bunch of actors on a set.”
― Eliza Player, Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir

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