Cleaning out the Closet...one microgram at a time

David Poses is a writer, speaker and activist, and author of the bestselling memoir, "The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery."   After 20 years of hiding his struggle with depression and opioids, David started opening up and challenging the disregard of science and evidence in drug treatment prevention and policy. His writing has been publishe...

I always felt different. Different from my peers, different from my family, just different. It wasn’t until I was an adolescent and started maturing that I realized that difference was that I was gay. And being from a rural, small town in Ohio, it certainly wasn’t something I was going to share with anybody.   So, I started drinking alcoholically in high school to quiet these feelings. Quieting su...