“How did this shit happen to me? I didn’t ask for any of it. Not that I was complaining, but how many thirteen-year-olds had gotten drunk, smoked pot, and sniffed cocaine in the back of a police car?”
Sitting on Raul’s porch on Friday night, I could hear the town start to come alive. Conversations, arguments, [...]

In his debut memoir, Long Past Stopping, Oran Canfield, whose father authored the ubiquitous Chicken Soup for the Soul series, unpacks the numerous bizarre stories he collected along his road to recovery from drug addiction.