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Addiction & Recovery

multigraincracker

(34,530 posts)

3. Condition of employment

Reply to GumboYaYa (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2024, 02:20 PM

Feb 2024

Seems very fair to me.
Great to help, but there has to be limits. That sounds fair.
I went through rehab 30 years ago. I was self medicating for a pain I didn’t understand. A great psychiatrist took me under his wing and only then did all make sense to me.
Good luck.

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