Nic and I have speculated on how his life might have been different if he’d undergone psychological testing when he was younger. What if his illnesses had been diagnosed and treated then? Would he have become addicted? Even if he had, would his drug use have been as extreme? Would he have been as treatment-resistant? Would he have continued to relapse? There’s no way to know, but we both believe that diagnosis as a child or as an early teen would have spared him some or most of the torments he’s since endured. When I researched addiction, I found evidence that many people use drugs to
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