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Kathryn Lewsey

“I drank so much I almost lost my job – now I’m helping others get clean”

Alex & Lucy da Silva at Silva Wellness.

“Waking up on my bathroom floor, I groaned. My head was pounding and I was covered in my own vomit. ‘This can’t be normal, people don’t live like this,’ I thought, as I stumbled to my feet," remembers Lucy da Silva, 42.

“Realising I needed to get help, I dialled The Priory, knowing that my work’s health insurance covered treatment there.

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