Can't Hardly Wait's Ethan Embry Has Been Battling Opiate Addiction for Six Years
Ethan Embry, best known for starring in the teen movie Can’t Hardly Wait, has revealed his secret battle with opiate addiction for the past six years.
The 38-year-old actor, who is also appeared on The Walking Dead, spoke out against Attorney General Jeff Sessions‘ order for federal prosecutors to take the harshest possible action against drug offenders.
“I was stuck in a cycle of running through a subutex script and smoking tar for about two straight years. 6 years ago today I started my kick,” Ethan tweeted. “If you are strung out on opiates and want to stop-but the fear of the kick is keeping you from it- I won’t lie it f�”ing sucks.”
I was stuck in a cycle of running through a subutex script and smoking tar for about two straight years. 6 years ago today I started my kick
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
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Opiate OD is the leading cause of preventable death in America at 50k last year alone. It's a health crises not a criminal one Mr Sessions
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
First they attack our access to affordable treatment, then they send a memo that our sick should be thrown away and treated like criminals
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
I believe the first step to combatting the opiate crises is dismantling the stigma attached to addiction.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
For decades we have told addicts that their behavior deserves punishment. That they should be locked away for their addictions.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
All that accomplishes is multiplying the shame that us addicts experience. It forces us to hide our addictions until it's too late for help
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
So many people have died because they were afraid and ashamed. This memo from Sessions does nothing to address that. It only makes it worse.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
Returning to mandatory minimum sentences for low level drug possession starts today.
It doesn't need congress.
No debate.
It's already law— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 12, 2017
I was stuck in a cycle of running through a subutex script and smoking tar for about two straight years. 6 years ago today I started my kick
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
If you are strung out on opiates and want to stop-but the fear of the kick is keeping you from it-
I won't lie it fucking sucks.— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
But unlike the cycle you are in right now, there is an end in sight.
Find someone you can trust to walk you through it and get tough.— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
My DM's are open if you need any help getting through the kick. There are little tricks that helped get me lessen the pain.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
Life won't get any easier for us when we sober up. But I do promise you'll be better at dealing with what comes at you clean.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
@azdilla31 None yet. Pretty sure I'll have today in the bag. Might even get cocky and claim I'll be clean tomorrow. But after that its fingers crossed.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
@SunnySeea Its true for countless people, but using a popular example, I think Prince had a better chance of living if he wasn't ashamed of his disease
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) May 14, 2017
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