In his own mind, Jesse Harless refused to call himself a felon. Although he’d been busted buying opioids from a federal agent and convicted, that label is not who he was. Harless was just 22—a bright and talented young man—and he’d simply stumbled into addiction at a young age. Luckily, he got on the road to recovery in time to save his life. Growing up wasn’t easy. Hailing from Lawrence, Massachusetts, Jesse had a father who was addicted to cocaine and alcohol. He lost his postal job. Then he had a car accident, suffering a serious brain injury, before leaving Jesse and his mom to fend for themselves. They lived in an apartment in Lowell. As a child, Jesse’s FIRST coping mechanism for his trauma (being the son of an addict) was thumb sucking. “It was something that I hid from people, it was embarrassing,” the now-recovered, successful entrepreneur, 38, told The …