doomed to repeat
by: emily alber
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In the coming weeks, I drank while my brain was healing and used alcohol as pain management for my back pain. “All I have to do is not fall and hit my head again”, I told myself. Re-injury could be fatal, but my alcoholism kept me in denial. It’s commonplace for alcoholics in active addiction to minimize the damage they are doing with their drinking. Despite the impact that substance abuse had already had on my body, I was not going to let anything stop me from pursuing my addiction.
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