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• Note on Authorship: this website was created by a recovering addict and survivor; I am not a chemical dependency therapist or mental health professional. We cannot offer counseling services or suggestions on your personal situation.  Except as otherwise cited, opinions offered here are the result of my own life experience and a great deal of reading in the Recovery and Mental Health fields.  
  
  
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