Stories are one of the most powerful sources of inspiration we have to draw upon. When protagonists face and subsequently overcome seemingly impossible challenges, it can provide a guiding light as we attempt to overcome our own struggles. For those that struggle with addiction, it can especially difficult to envisage an end of dependency. Thankfully, these fictional characters who struggled with addiction can help demonstrate how a person can overcome their personal challenges in order to walk the road to recovery. Charlie Pace, LOST Each of the characters on ABC’s 2007 series LOST had their own personal demons with which to contend. While many of the characters struggled with personal relationships, Charlie Pace had to overcome his addiction to heroin. A member of the one-hit-wonder band Driveshaft, Charlie followed his older brother Liam into an addiction to heroin. A few years later, his brother had enrolled in an addiction recovery program and gotten clean, but Charlie was still addicted — in fact, he was in the bathroom using drugs when Oceanic 815 went down. After surviving the plane crash, Charlie would regularly sneak off to use heroin, until he was caught by Locke, another survivor, in the first season episode “The Moth.” Locke took Charlie’s stash, but told him that he would give back the drugs if Charlie asked three times, since it ultimately had to be Charlie’s decision to stay clean. At the end of the episode, Charlie asks…