Jewish families (like my own) lined the streets of my neighborhood, the next neighborhood, and so on. My parents, two older brothers...

Today it has become a revamped, artsy district, but when I was born in 1987, it was a place full of gangs, violence, and drugs. I thought...

Let me take you back to when I was just six years old. My chronic asthma was a plague against my childhood, as I was in the hospital more...

When I hear someone say that there’s no hope for an addict, I can’t help but shake my head. If someone like me can come back from all...