Issa Ibrahim is a visual artist, author, musician, and filmmaker born and raised in Queens, New York. He is the author of the memoir ‘The Hospital Always Wins’ published by Chicago Review Press and has been featured in an HBO documentary and an award-winning NPR audio story.
Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?
A. Marijuana. Thanksgiving 2017.
Q. What do you like most about 12-step meetings?
A. It’s a leveling of the field. We’re all wounded and damaged and in need of help. No one is better than the other.
3. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?
A. A deliciously wicked mix of all of those.
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