Editor's note: In our previous blogs, we have talked about the importance of self-care as well as the symptoms associated with compassion fatigue, or burn-out. A few symptoms of burn-out include a lack of empathy, exhaustion, and an increase in drug and/or alcohol abuse. This blog focuses on the extreme end of the latter - addiction - and it comes to us from a fellow first responder. Initially, we had some concern about potential backlash from those who don't understand t