- May 10, 2026
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Dr. Sarah Johnson
Dr. Johnson is a board-certified addiction medicine physician with over 15 years of experience in MAT and integrated treatment approaches.
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Is This Anxiety, Addiction, or Both?
Your chest gets tight. Your thoughts race. You feel restless, irritable, tense, or overstimulated. You cannot shut your mind off. You feel like something is wrong, even when nothing obvious is happening.
Then alcohol, cannabis, opioids, pills, or another substance seems to help.
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You may still be going to work. You may still be parenting. You may still be answering texts, paying bills, showing up for family obligations, and keeping most of your life moving.
From the outside, nothing may look urgent.
That is part of what makes substance use confusing in the beginning. It does not always start by ruining everything. More often, it starts by becoming part of how you manage everything.
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