An exhibit on addiction sits above Harvard's Sackler Museum. Yes, those Sacklers.

I am a drug addict, albeit a sober one for just over five years. Like many, my experience with addiction brought devastation, despair and destruction, culminating in the loss of my job, my home, my family and almost my life. But I did not want to die, so I clawed my way out of the early grave I'd dug for myself. Sobriety is always in the back of my mind, so when I saw the word "Addiction" in bold black letters on the Boston subway in November, my curiosity was piqued. It was an ad for an exhibit titled "Objects…