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Feb. 4, 2018 – There’s an enormous sense of self-medication … The fastest thing you can do at the cutting board is open a bottle of wine, pour yourself a glass. It’s faster than going to your doctor to say ‘I’m suffering from burnout,’ it’s faster than going to a yoga class and relaxing in a different way.” It was more than 10 years ago when Johnston finally realized that she herself had a drinking problem. “I got into trouble with alcohol in my 50s when I was over-performing at a job and used alcohol for self-medication,” she said. Even though Johnston knew she was getting into trouble with her drinking, “it took two family members and a sweetheart who confronted me, and luckily I took a sledgehammer and went to rehab and I’m in my 10th year of sobriety,” she said in an interview with CBC’s Information Radio.
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