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Philip Seymour Hoffman had been clean for 23 years before he relapsed in 2013

February 3, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

A sad reminder that your addiction is always waiting quietly, in that dark corner, to pounce again. It’s never “gone.”

Those contrarian “experts” like Theodore Dalrymple and Peter Hitchens who say otherwise aren’t experts at all, because they aren’t addicts.

They get to keep writing, and breathing, this morning, while this guy is dead.

A fine prose style is not necessarily a signifier of wisdom.

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