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Essential Pittsburgh Archives

Christopher Kennedy Lawford: Kicking Habits and Recovering to Live

Published March 12, 2013 at 9:00 PM EDT

New York Times Best selling Author, Activist, and Actor Christopher Kennedy Lawford chronicled his battle with near-fatal drug and alcohol addiction in the memoir Symptoms of Withdrawal. We'll talk with him about his latest book RECOVER TO LIVE: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction and his journey back to sobriety.

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