Ethan Embry is using his personal struggle with addiction to raise awareness about how Donald Trump‘s America will do more harm than good.
Specifically, in response to Jeff Sessions‘ order seeking criminal penalties for drug offenders, the 38-year-old opened up about what that means for addicts while sharing his own story of getting clean six years ago.
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Taking to Twitter on Friday, the 38-year-old actor shared:
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
On Sunday, the Grace And Frankie star got more personal about his own addiction while offering a hand to any of his followers who may be facing similar struggles:
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
This is such an important conversation to be had in these uncertain times — and we applaud Ethan for bravely sharing his story!
[Image via Nicky Nelson/WENN.]
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