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For Assistant Merrimack County Attorney, Brendan Cahalin, alcohol was a powerful and effective way of coping with life’s problems and then it stopped working.
Like many professionals, Cahalin, 32, turned to alcohol at a young age and later in life he used it to avoid difficult feelings. This avoidance led him in and out of numerous psychiatric wards, detox and recovery facilities, and sober houses. And it nearly cost him his relationships with family and his life.
“I disconnect from anything that is unpleasant. If I am upset, sad, angry, afraid, really anything, I push it aside and push it down. Maybe I distract myself with something like video games, TV, or something else. Whatever I can do to not acknowledge my emotions and allow myself to feel,” Cahalin says. “I was raised in a family that put a face on that everything is fine and nobody really talked about feeli
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Since 2013, Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and, as CNN reports, the first former head of state since WWII to be convicted of war crimes, has been imprisoned in the UK, serving a 50-year sentence. It s an ignoble end to a political career that had begun more than 30 years prior and would change the course of African history in countless ways. Despite Taylor s assertion at his sentencing that he was no threat to society, the tens of thousands of lives lost or destroyed by his actions reflect a very different reality.