Post by shoebox on Apr 19, 2008 8:18:58 GMT -5
There were many people who tried to help Gia when she was trapped within her addiction. Her family, friends, people within the modeling industry.
I used the word “trapped” intentionally, that’s what happens with addiction. No one wakes up one morning and decides to become an addict, it happens over a period of time. Even those closest to them may not notice at first the signs of addiction setting in. The person themselves may not see it, they think they can handle it. That’s the whole point of programs like D.A.R.E:
www.dare.com
To educate others to recognize the early signs of drug use, a great deal of information available today was not so easily available back when Gia was in the early stages of her addiction. So the point of this post is to not lay blame, or criticize anyone, but to open a discussion about the types of help and support a person can give to someone addicted.
Please respect others opinions, and feelings and remember this is an open discussion, not a debate. The only winners here will be the addict looking for help, a parent looking for support, or ways to cope. Gia wanted to do something to help others trapped the way she was. If she were here today I think she would use her own story to try and help others.
So to start off : Photographer Francesco Scavullo when Gia’s heroin addiction made it impossible for her to find work, Scavullo continued to employ her, I don’t think he had any first hand knowledge on how to deal with Gia’s addiction, but was trying to help her in his own way.
By using Gia in his shoots Scavullo was putting himself in harms way for a photographer to employ a model who more, or less was at that point blacklisted he must have been trying to help, by supplying morale and financial support to help her stay clean.
I used the word “trapped” intentionally, that’s what happens with addiction. No one wakes up one morning and decides to become an addict, it happens over a period of time. Even those closest to them may not notice at first the signs of addiction setting in. The person themselves may not see it, they think they can handle it. That’s the whole point of programs like D.A.R.E:
www.dare.com
To educate others to recognize the early signs of drug use, a great deal of information available today was not so easily available back when Gia was in the early stages of her addiction. So the point of this post is to not lay blame, or criticize anyone, but to open a discussion about the types of help and support a person can give to someone addicted.
Please respect others opinions, and feelings and remember this is an open discussion, not a debate. The only winners here will be the addict looking for help, a parent looking for support, or ways to cope. Gia wanted to do something to help others trapped the way she was. If she were here today I think she would use her own story to try and help others.
So to start off : Photographer Francesco Scavullo when Gia’s heroin addiction made it impossible for her to find work, Scavullo continued to employ her, I don’t think he had any first hand knowledge on how to deal with Gia’s addiction, but was trying to help her in his own way.
By using Gia in his shoots Scavullo was putting himself in harms way for a photographer to employ a model who more, or less was at that point blacklisted he must have been trying to help, by supplying morale and financial support to help her stay clean.
