To KPCC’s Offramp.
You neglected to point out that if the Dr Feelgood allegations are true, they can also been seen as evidence Dr Abrams treated addicts as patients, not as criminals.
But he wasnt that heroic. Marc Abrams was likely just fighting depression.
At some point in his life, ca 1980, he steeled himself, put one foot in front of the other and moved to Silverlake, opening a simple low-income clinic nearby. He brooked no distractions. If patients were liars or malingerers he hardly noticed. He did his job, he paid his taxes, and he walked.
He walked, reading newspapers in the bicycle lane and courting a disaster…which never came. Instead, Walking Man became a Silverlake icon.
When by July 2010 he couldnt take it anymore, he committed suicide.
Tags: addicts, criminals, depression, Dr Feelgood, patients, suicide, walking, WalkingMan
