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Brown tried to get clean on her own multiple times to no avail, and so she checked into Foundations Recovery Center, a rehabilitation facility outside of Baltimore, in March 2020. But right around that time, as cases of COVID-19 began rising on the East Coast, states started issuing stay-at-home orders and shutdowns of all but essential businesses and organizations. Due to the isolation caused by the pandemic and the inability to socialize and connect to others at her recovery center Brown made it a little over 90 days in rehab before she relapsed again. The epidemic before the pandemic