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Few are more qualified to delve into the severity of the scars that State of Origin has inflicted on Mitchell Pearce than Josh Rosenthal.
A nobody to almost everybody. But a somebody to Pearce.

Josh Rosenthal, senior counsellor at Sydney addiction treatment centre The Cabin, says: “A lot of our clients prefer abstinence-based programs like AA or NA. There are misconceptions it’s a religious program — it was written in the ’30s and states y

“With cocaine, people expect different treatment,” he says. “They might sit in the
room with someone on heroin or ice and think they’re not that bad. But we treat
addictions as addictions.”
The self-deception that there is a certain “prestige” associ

“Especially with tech addiction, it’s like ‘I’m not a cocaine or heroin addict so I’m not that bad’,” Mr Rosenthal said. “Yet they’re spending just as much, if not more, time engaging in addictive behaviour.”

Mr Rosenthal said technology facilitated

The courtyard outside The Cabin, Australia’s self-proclaimed “leading outpatient addiction treatment centre”, is a mixture of pale brick and concrete. Beige bleeds into grey and then into cream. There’s a smattering of meticulously sculpted plants an

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