How it feels to go cold turkey
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5 min readSep 25, 2023
Your skin crawls. Your tongue swells. You dry heave into a dirty toilet bowl until cloudy water comes back up. You go to the kitchen to gulp down more. It is 10:30. AM.
The truth is that withdrawing from alcohol — liquor, in my case — makes you feel like the world’s ending. No other way to explain it. The world’s ending, and the hum of the refrigerator’s excruciating.
