I started drinking at nine.
I was smoking pot at 10.
Coke at 14 — and that’s not even counting the other addictions like books, food, nail biting, and boys.
Now, I wasn’t always in a stupor. I wasn’t a heavy hitter that early on.
But I was numb as often as I could be.
Then, when I quit drinking at 35, I was prescribed benzos to help alleviate the anxiety a…
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