How to survive the holidays and stay sober, or help loved ones do the same

In his first years of sobriety from heroin addiction, Andrew Brown recalls feeling uncomfortable at holiday gatherings. The way family members looked at him, studying his eyes to determine whether he might be high, was unnerving. It made him wonder whether his family would ever trust him.

“I think it’s common for people, they go around their family and the families are apprehensive,” he said. “I had some of those looks, ‘Like is he really in recovery, is this real?’ ”

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