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Drunk in the delivery room with a newborn. (opens the original)
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Charles Reed told his wife he was going for a walk after she had just given birth to their daughter.He went to a liquor store instead.That’s not surprising, really. He was already drunk. He had been drinking for longer than he knows during the whole delivery, “sneaking” liquor in a water bottle as his wife was getting an epidural. In fact, though blurry, he remembers a nurse looking at him and wondering whether he was steady enough to hold his newborn. That should have been enough to scare him s
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A girl walks into a church with drugs in her car and asks for a miracle. (opens the original)
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Emily White once celebrated nine months of sobriety with church friends, accepted the chip, and then went out and got drunk.Nobody knew.How? In some ways it’s complex. But in others it’s not: there’s a difference between pursuing sobriety and pursuing freedom. Em knew the language of AA. She knew how Christians were supposed to sound. She could show up drunk to a recovery meeting, but around church people she hid.Her drinking—and eventually her drug use—wasn’t only about partying. By college, sh
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