There, the resemblances end. There's more pressure on Darryl Strawberry because there's more visibility. But he probably hopes they would just leave him alone. Nor, Patterson says, is Strawberry's plight a sign of weakness. It's more than a matter of the mind, Patterson says.
Addiction is an illness.
But it didn't make sense for me, college educated and from a good, solid Atlanta family to be sent to prison three times. I was a sick person. Today I am restored. So, as a Florida prosecutor declares it's time to lock up Strawberry, Patterson shakes his head. The average American doesn't have insight into addiction.