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Peace to this community, and forgive me for coming as a stranger.

I write from Ukraine. I am Pavlo Kazarian, a clinical psychologist and director of Dzherelo, a registered non-profit organisation near Kyiv. Since 2006 we have run a residential programme for people recovering from drug and alcohol dependence: they live together for about a year, keep the household themselves, and work in groups with psychologists and with counsellors who came through the same programme. We are not a clinic and we take no state money. Consultations for a family are free and anonymous, because the people who call us usually have nothing left.

Since the full-scale war we also work with veterans and their families. A man comes back, cannot sleep, starts drinking, and his wife or mother arrives at our door not knowing where else to turn. That part of our work has grown, and it is the…

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