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When friend groups avoid confronting someone's drinking

My closest friend has been drinking too much for the past year and when I try to bring it up she gets defensive and changes the subject. Our other friends have noticed too but everyone's waiting for someone else to say something, and I'm tired of pretending everything's normal.

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