Larry North
September 3, 1935 – November 13, 1992. Larry died of Emphysema. He was my guideing light and role model and mentor. He went from being an accountant for Kentucky Fried Chicken executive flying around the world to waking up on a park bench in New York City on Skid Row.
He dedicated his life to saving addicts. He chewed tobacco, Nicoret gum, wore a Nicotine patch and smoked other peoples’ cigarette butts that were left in his office.
This occured even with the oxygen tank near by. Larry’s wit went way over my head most days. He often told me when you look see!
Larry North was panhandleling to get money for newcomwers to get registered
into the fifth East Coast Narcotics Anonymous Convention – from Yale to Jail – at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, June 1985 . He packed about nine toxic penniless addicts in to his van. Three simple things … Don’t use … Go to meetings … And … Change your Entire Life…God