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When unexpected triggers surface years into addiction recovery

I've been clean for three years but yesterday I found myself googling my old dealer's name and I don't even know why

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's relationship to past dependencies can resurface without conscious intention, revealing the persistence of neural pathways.

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