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C h r i s K e e l e y In 1982/83 I was psychiatrically hospitalized at least 8 times, I was pronounced dead, I was in several jails in a few foreign countries and I was taking every drug I could get my hands on prescribed by doctors, psychiatrists, home made, home grown, invented, smuggled, swallowed, injected, smoked, eaten, rubbed on, inhaled .... I was busted drinking Barcadi at Johns Hopkins Hospital on 5/20.83 and they found a syringe in my hospital room. This was a locked psyciatric ward where the good doctors were preforming Shock treatment...I was too sick for the depression shock treatment. Anyway I was expelled and given the oppourtunity to be admitted to the famous Shepherd and Enoch Pratt hospital where Zelda Fitzgerald spent most of her later days in life. Once you go there many don't come out. I was a "late stage" drug addict with the diagnosis of manic depressive (1976), Severe depression (1982), schizophrenia (1976). My last girl friend (2000) called me paranoid and narcassitic. I was addicted to at least 8 drugs and prescribed about six additional drugs by doctors with good intentions. My psychiatrist, Dr. Galen from 1982 who sent me to Johns Hopkins is a good friend today and recently told me a gave him valadation for living. An honorable spiritual remark from a professional who reached the highest echelons in his field. Shepherd Pratt in 1983 had one of the best and successful 12 step 100% total abstinence drug rehabilitation centers in the whole world. Baltimore Narcotics anonymous can attest to that.

P E O P L E

	June 2001