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(Oleg Moroz/Tengyart/Unsplash) By Gina Christian • Posted December 22, 2020 A Christmas season amid COVID can make recovery from addiction even more challenging – but not impossible, said local experts. For those wrestling with substance abuse, memories of “past holidays have always included a drug of choice, alcohol or compulsive eating, and that has become an integral part of the holiday,” said permanent Deacon Dan Giblin, a certified recovery specialist and full-time spiritual advisor at the St. John Vianney Center. Located in Downingtown, the facility provides behavioral counseling and addictive disease treatment for clergy and religious nationwide. Even absent a pandemic, the holidays tend to enhance an individual’s mood of the moment, said Deacon Giblin, citing an observation made by his pastor, Father John Newns of St. Ann Parish in Phoenixville. ....