But alcoholics are masters of denial, and I managed to keep whatever worries I harbored about my own drinking nicely compartmentalized, stashed away on the same shelf in my cubicle where I kept my growing collection of books about addiction. So, I drink a little too much; it’s not really a problem. I said that to myself often, and I meant it. Real alcoholics drank themselves straight out of jobs: they got loaded at lunch and never came back to the office; they were so hung over they couldn’t get to work in the first place; they stashed gin in their desks and received repeated warnings about
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