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When grief threatens recovery from addiction

I've been clean from drugs for five years but my mom is dying and the only thing that helped me cope before was getting high and I don't know how to handle this pain sober.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Major losses can destabilize hard-won sobriety by reactivating old patterns of emotional escape.

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