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In this podcast, Bruno recounts his accelerating descent into the hell that addiction was creating for him.

We learn that:

1. This is a classic tale of looking for the geographic cure, that "wherever you go, there you are". We can't outrun the disease.
2. This is a progressive disease that accelerates in its downward trajectory. It never stops unless arrested.
3. Denial is a major characteristic of addiction. The alcoholic/addict is incapable of making the connection to his many symptoms of insanity and his substance abuse.
4. Toward the end, if there is an end, the abuser uses drugs and alcohol to deaden the feelings of intense inferiority and shame over what kind of person he has become.