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Beating Substance Abuse: Attention Not Willpower - Joan Tollifson.
Joan Tolifson spent the sixties drinking herself into blackouts before becoming one of the most unflinching voices on addiction, shame, and what actually gets you free of them — a path built not on willpower, but on attention.
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