Graduates of St. Matthew’s House addiction programs have an 85 percent success rate and staying clean and sober. But in the past year, they are seeing greater numbers of program graduates relapse.
The isolation and social distancing prescribed to curb the pandemic has given people struggling with addiction the ability to stay at home and drink or use drugs.
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