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When friendship bonds become obstacles to physical recovery

My drinking buddy from college and I both ended up with liver problems in our forties and we keep saying we need to get sober together, but every time one of us tries the other one pulls them back into 'just one night' and we're literally killing each other with kindness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared addiction creates a cycle where friends become each other's biggest barriers to the healing their bodies desperately need.

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“Where Are You with Alcohol and the body?”

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