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soldierant

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3. Having been married 40 years to a recovering alcoholic,
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 09:24 PM
Jan 2025

Last edited Wed Jan 29, 2025, 10:17 PM - Edit history (1)

and having attended a bunch of open AA meetings, I can say that I have met one peson who was additcied to heroin (as well as alcohol and cigarettes.) When I met her she was clean of all of them, and was cleas that of the three, the cigarettes were the hardest to escape from. I smoked cigarettes myself for a number of years, and I can certainly say that getting off them was the hardest thing I have done in my life. But that's the only substance I personally can speak to

I suppose it's not impossible that there might be someone, somewhere, who would have more issues quitting an anti-depressant (a particular one - they aren't all chemically the same) than heroin, but I really doubt it.

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