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A young woman has told how her secret teenage drinking habit spiralled into a deadly addiction – leaving her knocking back a bottle of vodka a day by the age of 20. ‌

Lacey Davis, 22, from Wolverhampton, says alcohol became her crutch for crippling social anxiety. By her late teens she was hiding bottles of gin in her handbag, swigging spirits from water bottles at work and drinking before job interviews just to “feel normal”. ‌

“The first time I drank at 15, I fell in love with it,” she said. “I needed alcohol to feel normal, to be confident, to even talk to people. I never thought a few drinks as a teenager would lead to years of addiction.” ‌

At her lowest point, Lacey was guzzling more than a bottle of vodka a day, living out of hotels and collapsing on park

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