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He Beat Cancer—But Addiction Was the Harder Fight | Michael Bugary
What happens when the thing that gives your life meaning disappears?For Michael Bugary, it was baseball.After playing at UC Berkeley and in the Boston Red Sox organization, a career-ending injury shattered the identity he'd spent years building.Searching for relief, he turned to drugs and alcohol—a journey that eventually led to heroin addiction.Then, in the middle of that struggle, life delivered another blow:A malignant brain tumor.Multiple surgeries.Chemotherapy.Radiation.But surviving cancer didn't automatically heal the deeper wounds.In this episode of Thought Atlas, I'm joined by…
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