The screaming never stopped. Nothing ever filled it.
Rehab taught him to ignore it. Therapy to manage it. Meetings to resist it. Medication to muffle it. Not one of them — in ten years — ever filled the hole that was doing the screaming. That is why the relapses kept coming.
The hole was there before the drugs. The drugs were never the problem — they were his solution to a problem nobody else could see. Every program aimed at taking the solution away. None of them poured anything good back in.
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Three rehabs — taught him to fight the cravings
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Meetings — taught him to resist it one day at a time
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Not one of them filled the hole
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That is why the relapses kept coming