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Addicts love talking about their addiction – but haven’t we suffered enough?

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

I have always found the parable of the Prodigal Son sickeningly unfair, and I felt this again while driving a close relative down a motorway in a frightful gale at night to a residential rehab.

-That morning I’d had an emergency consultation in London on behalf of the said relative, with the head of the rehab place, who I’ll call Dr X.

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