ad they're not getting treatment," he said. "There are 23 million people addicted to drugs and alcohol in the U.S. "We need to be racing to have treatment available at the same speed that people are dying."īrian O'Neill, CEO of Recovery Centers of America hopes Bracebridge Hall will help fill that void, no matter what the addition. That's what I was doing, drinking to manage and numb my anxiety," Vargas said. "If you're drinking to not feel something that's troubling. Vargas even wrote about it in "Between Breaths, a Memoir of Panic and Addiction." She's hoping her story can save someone else. She said when she came out of rehab, she realized the best think to do was talk about it because so many people don't. "It was leaked to the press while I was in rehab which was really unfortunate for me and my children." "It wasn't my decision to take the story public," Vargas said. She's enjoyed an Emmy award winning career at ABC News celebrating 20 years of story-telling, but sadly her story of alcohol addiction wasn't one she'd planned to share. They really saved my life," she said.Īnd what a life she's lived, covering history in the making from hurricane Katrina to life in Iraq during the war. "My parents and my brother and my sister were amazing. It wasn't until her second stint in rehab that Vargas really began her road to recovery.
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