By Edward Hallowell — 2018
It’s time to treat the chronic brain disease called addiction.
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It is now more than five years since Odom’s drug abuse prematurely ended his NBA career, destroyed his marriage to Khloe Kardashian and left him comatose for three days in a Las Vegas hospital.
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‘Skin cancer worked its way into my lymph nodes. I was devastated.’
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