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<p>Addiction begins with distance, duality, disillusionment, denial and despair.</p><p>Distance was to put up an unnecessary wall with others. Duality was that double life where one wore masks and played the games. Disillusionment was to not find satisfaction and to be afraid of one&#8217;s feelings and emotions where the only thought was to be numb. Denial was to ignore a dilemma and to pretend it was not there. Despair was to have no hope.</p><p>But though it began this way it need not be the end.</p><p>Addiction remains that compulsion only when the dynamics around the person remain compulsively chaotic and bewildering. The obsessive quality of addiction remains an obsession when one believes there is no way out and has no other focus.</p><p>And though addiction was present, though the darkness has become pervasive, one may find through that hope combined with realism that inward path where the light is rekindled and one emerges anew with an insight, a connection, meaning, and a willingness to embrace life as it is.</p><p><strong>Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D., CAADC</strong></p><p>Wilkes-Barre</p><style>
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