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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: A Close Call With Death
Description: In this article, we tell a story which we entitle "A Close Call with Death", as a means of demonstrating how an addict's impulsive behaviour can lead him unknowingly into situations that could result in his death.Further, we discuss how this addict's mom, through no fault of her own, wasn't able to recognize the early warning signs of an addiction in the making, and therefore served as his enabler for years before he bottomed out.When you're an addict, you act out of impulse, without regard to the consequences to yourself or others. The impulse...