“I’m in Heaven here” A bad accident in the coal mine where he had worked for 17 years is where Butch’s addiction began 39 years ago. First, it was Tylenol with codeine. “It got to the point where God started telling me, ‘You’re taking those, and you really don’t need them. You’re taking them for how they’re making you feel.’ I rebelled against that and it hardened my heart.” Butch later started buying street drugs – OxyContin, then Percocet – anything he could get. Then he found cocaine and...