young, white, heterosexual, able-bodied individual and these characteristics give me a big advantage in the grand scheme of life. In addition to these characteristics, I am also a woman who comes from a poor, uneducated family and these characteristics give me a big disadvantage in the grand scheme. During my childhood, I was forced to cope with the fact that both of my parents, and a lot of my family were hardcore drug addicts. This was fairly well known throughout our immediate community. As a result