Your Non-Scary Guide to Going to Rehab

IMPORTANT: For Women Only –

JULY 16, 2019-  For me, this is personal.
When I was in my 20s, just starting my career (before I became a features editor at Cosmo), my brother was descending into what would become a years-long heroin addiction. I watched helplessly as he lost weight, lost jobs, lost friends. As he stole and lied and sold my iPad to a pawn shop. Once, he showed up at my door, homeless and high, his arms still tender from plunging needles into them too many times. I’d already written his funeral speech in my mind. I’d cry on the subway, mourning him while he was still alive … It’s not news that drugs are killing us. Among women, the number of drug overdose deaths spiked 260 percent between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC. For the first time ever, you, a woman living in America, are more likely to die from an overdose than in a car accident.

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