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How to address a friend's addiction without destroying the relationship

My best friend and I have been inseparable for twenty years but her drinking has gotten worse and worse and now I don't know the difference between being supportive and being enabling. Every time I try to bring it up she shuts down or gets angry, and I'm terrified that if I push harder I'll lose her, but I'm already losing her anyway.

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