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the Specialist Reporting Team's Penny Timms

Support for going sober in the bush as new program helps break the stigma of giving up alcohol

It took a long time for Shanna Whan to realise there was a problem.

For years, she repeated a mantra to tell herself her relationship with alcohol was OK. 

"It's fine; I'm not an alcoholic, I'm an Australian," she remembers thinking.

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