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Addiction & Recovery

safeinOhio

(34,871 posts)

2. If it works, keep it up.

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Mon Dec 30, 2019, 09:55 AM

Dec 2019

For me it was finding out where all that pain was coming from that I was using drugs to kill. Once I found out and dealt with those, drugs were not a problem. A few years of therapy and a degree in psychology did the trick. Hard work but well worth it.

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