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How the Fear of Catastrophic Addiction Propelled a Writer to Sobriety

By Emily Redondo
I don’t know why I spent so much time trying to insert logic and rational thinking into the insanity of addiction when it never made sense in the first place. That one decision to break the seal of sobriety I desperately tried to keep under wraps didn’t end until a few weeks later when I came out of a blackout in a hospital emergency room.