A link to Carrick's blog went live on the Silent Treatment: Addiction in America site this morning. (It's in the top left corner.) She will be posting at least twice a week for the next couple of months. Her first entry begins:
I suppose my story isn’t typical — every time I visited my parents someone would take out the video camera. I could never be too sure whether they were trying to get footage for this show that I had expressed little interest in or if they were just afraid the next time they would see me it would be in a coroner’s office and they wanted to record every moment they could. Maybe both.
If that's not enough to entice you to the site for the rest of the story about Carrick's journey from addict to advocate, I don't know what is.
On Friday, I finished the last of three first-person stories I've written for the initial installment of a five-part "Silent Treatment" series that will be available free to newspaper editors across the country, via the Kinght Ridder/Tribune News Service, beginning August 2. For that matter, the series is free to anyone who wishes to spread the word.
Despite initial appearances, Carrick and I are just a small part of an impressive package. Stories for the other four days of the series have been written by several distinguished journalists and the site will feature additional bloggers, a discussion area, a feedback section (already live), links and many other resources.
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