I want to tread gently into a sensitive area during our 10-minute walk today.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily podcast to encourage you to create and sustain a habit of walking.

Today's walk starts in just a moment. Dean left this comment. Getting in my

four miles or so every day is the healthiest addiction I've ever had. I just don't feel right the

rest of the day if I skip it. This is an episode that I have pondered doing for a while,

the idea of walking as a healthy addiction.

And I keep kicking that can down the road.

I keep pushing pause on the idea because I don't want to minimize addiction.

Addiction is a powerful word.

People struggling with addiction.

People helping others in their family, people they love, overcome addiction.

It is powerful.

Addictions can change a life forever.

It can change a family dynamic forever.

We have a member of our family who for years was addicted to heroin.

It's a terrible, terrible addiction.

If I'm remembering correctly, he was Narcan back to life at least three times, two or three times.

And gratefully, that addiction, that heroin addiction, is now in the rear view mirror for him.

But we saw up close the power that addiction, in this case addiction to heroin, can have on someone.

And so I don't want to minimize that.

And I don't think, I don't think Dean is minimizing it either, because what he is expressing

is something that, quite frankly, I have felt and still feel. I understand the idea. I understand

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