Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「"I was among the 73 million people who watched Tuesday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden," writes HuffPost guest writer Laura Cathcart Robbins. "It was a debate, I might add, that had all the decorum of a 'Real Housewives' reunion show (no shade to all you Real Housewives out there)."⁠ ⁠ "As a Black woman, I was stunned and demoralized by Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacists," Robbins writes. "But when Biden brought up his late son Beau’s military record and Trump countered by attacking Biden’s other son, Hunter, saying he was thrown out of the military for cocaine use, I had to get up and walk away from the television."⁠ ⁠ "I circled back, though, when I heard the tone of Biden’s swift, loving response: 'My son, my son, my son ― like a lot of people you know at home ― had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it, he’s fixed it, he’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.'"⁠ ⁠ "In 2019, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said, 'The biggest killer around drug and alcohol abuse isn’t the overdoses. It’s the stigma. Stigma keeps people from asking for help.' I know a little bit about that," adds Robbins. "In 2006, I was fighting a monster of an alcohol and pill addiction, and I was losing."⁠ ⁠ "I was hiding my addiction from everyone I knew, keeping up with a wild schedule and suffering through daily bouts of withdrawal and shame," Robbins says. "Even though I knew that the quantities of pills and booze I was downing on a nightly basis could kill me, I was determined to keep up appearances. I’d just been named president of the PTA at my kid’s school. Later that year, I was asked to join the Board of Trustees."⁠ ⁠ "It’s taken me years to learn to hold my head high after rehab," Robbins writes. "When appropriate, I identify as an alcoholic, but more often, I identify as a woman in recovery. Until Tuesday night, I had started to become hopeful that the nation was indeed coming to a point where the stigma of addiction was becoming less and less significant." ⁠ ⁠ Read her full essay at our link in bio.」10月2日 8時05分