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Alesia Brand is a therapist at the WVU Crisis Support and Recovery Center, located in downtown Martinsburg, West Virginia. She works 10 hour shifts, where she spends most of her time facilitating group therapy and educating her patients on the effects of substance use disorder.

“Addiction is a brain disease, and I try to…