Beautiful Men and Meth: The Sharp Double-Edge of Killer Looks
5 min readDec 2, 2018
(“Steve” is a composite of some of the men I’ve met in recovery, some of whom committed suicide-by-relapse. Constructing this fictional biography is part of an attempt to figure out how inordinate physical beauty — a trait most of us envy — creates its own set of issues in relation to addiction.)