The death of Hoffman Panics The Lives Of Others

There was a deluge grief on Facebook, twitter and in columns by recovering addicts and alcoholics, in the first few hours and days that followed Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s’s death from an apparent overdose of heroin. Some of the columnists were the journalist Seth Mnookin and the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin who contributed their own struggles with sobriety and the fear of relapsing back into …