“Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the day came when I would have to work them out.”
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