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Jul 2015

Unspoken Truths: Young People in Recovery

Text and Video by Roger Newton Youth Today spoke to six young people July 2 at the 2015 International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Atlanta, asking them a series of personal questions about alcoholism and […]

Recovery: Pink card with hand-written black printing "Iwasn't willing to face the consquences of my actions."

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Dec 2013

Damon’s Fix: A Young Heroin Addict’s Journey from Injection to Incarceration

Text by Katy McCarthy | Photos by © Djamila Grossman, Standard- Examiner When photographer Djamila Grossman met Damon Conrow in 2010 he was 26-years-old and had been addicted to heroin for seven years. At that […]

© Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

© Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

Damon has been addicted to heroin for seven years. In hopes of ending the cycle that slowly eats away at him, he pleaded up to first-degree felony so he could stay in prison longer than the state asked, for his drug-distribution charges. It was the only way he could think of to get away from the drug. He smokes outside his father’s home in Ogden, Utah, Jan. 18, 2010. © Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

© Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

Conrow is high from shooting up heroin at his father’s home in Ogden, Utah, Jan. 14, 2010. © Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

Conrow injects himself with heroin at his father’s home in Ogden, Utah, Jan 8, 2010. © Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

Damon has been addicted to heroin for seven years. In hopes of ending the cycle that slowly eats away at him, he pleaded up to first-degree felony so he could stay in prison longer than the state asked, for his drug-distribution charges. It was the only way he could think of to get away from the drug. He smokes outside his father’s home in Ogden, Utah, Jan. 18, 2010. © Djamila Grossman/Standard-Examiner

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