09/18/2025
Oskar Schindler didn’t start out as a hero. He was a profiteer, a man who used others for gain. But when he saw people’s lives being destroyed, he made a choice: to spend everything he had to save them.
That story isn’t just history—it’s a mirror. Today, we face a different kind of crisis: addiction, mental illness, untreated trauma, fentanyl, alcohol, despair. Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost each year, not because they’re beyond saving, but because our systems are outdated, underfunded, or rooted in stigma.
What if we built a new kind of list?
Not a list based on ability to pay, but on human worth.
Not 30-day rehabs that cut people off from dignity, but communities that reconnect them to life.
Not punishment for relapse, but support through it.
Recovery isn’t about control—it’s about connection. It’s about asking not “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?” It’s about daring to believe that transformation is possible, over and over again.
At Red Door Life, we believe treatment must evolve—toward compassion, empowerment, and real outcomes. Because the question isn’t whether a life is worth saving. It’s whether we’re brave enough, like Schindler, to prove it.
Read the full piece here:
👉 https://www.reddoor.life/post/schindler-slist-addiction-andthetruecostofrecovery
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