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Fairfield Addiction Specialist: 'Hopelessness' Hurts Recovery, Could Make Us Drink Too Much Fairfield Addiction Specialist: 'Hopelessness' Hurts Recovery, Could Make Us Drink Too Much
Fairfield Addiction Specialist: 'Hopelessness' Hurts Recovery, Could Make Us Drink Too Much Does your "five o'clock somewhere" come in the middle of the afternoon in COVID-19 work-from-home quarantine? The stress is too much for some of us and impacts people in alcohol recovery. Someone trying to maintain sobriety is especially challenged right now, said John Hamilton, who is the CEO/president of Liberation Programs, Inc., a behavioral health organization that treats substance use disorders with outpatient and residential treatment centers at several locations in Fairfield County. "Any sense of loss and any level of financial stress can be a trigger for relapse," he worries. …

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by Donna Christopher