This request is for a free newsletter on the Substack platform offering interviews, analysis, insights, and thought leadership. Please introduce yourself briefly. Do not use AI. No backlinks are offered, though your name, professional title, expertise, and business will be highlighted and added to tags for SEO purposes. Please send a professional, well-focused medium-large headshot. INTERVIEW 1) Someone with a long history of addiction said that at some point, you work for the addiction rather than it working for you, and the substance convinces you that you can't do anything without it. What does it take for someone to recognize they have become a servant to the substance? Please respond in narrative form. 2) This person said addiction ran his life for decades and he believed the problem was that he wasn't drinking enough. What leads to that belief? Please answer in narrative form. 3) "The hardest thing to do, the phone can weigh 30 pounds. Pick up the phone and ask for help." What common threads exist in the struggle to ask for help, especially when it must be done repeatedly? How do people lift that heavy phone, so to speak, and break through? 4) "Because there's life after addiction and it's good." Many want to experience that better life, whether they are in addiction or affected by someone who is. Do people in addiction doubt that a better life is possible?