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What’s the first thing you remember doing wrong to someone? Did it hurt them? And if it did, would you call that person now, 10, 20 or even 30 years later, to apologise?

That’s exactly what Liam has had to do in his recovery.

Liam, an executive chef, always told himself: I’ve got kids. I’ve got a family. I’m an award-winning chef. My career is thriving. I can’t be an addict.
But decades of drug and alcohol abuse proved otherwise.

His final wake up call came when his son found him in a k-hole, bleeding out on a concrete floor.

Now, Liam sits before me, willing to improve for his kids but more importantly for himself. And then comes the one question that stops him in his tracks and leaves him speechless.

Trigger warning: This episode discusses substance abuse, suicide, domestic violence and graphic scenes of an overdose.
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