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When educational opportunities require hiding recovery history

I went back to school at 45 and my classmates have no idea I spent my thirties homeless and addicted and I feel like I am living a double life.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social mobility often demands concealing the very struggles that make achievement most meaningful and hard-won.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Recovery identity — from addiction?”

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