Certain names and identifying characteristics have been changed, including the names of people I knew in rehab and a facility name, which I call “the Center.”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Vargas, Elizabeth, author.
Title: Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction / Elizabeth Vargas.
Description: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016009767| ISBN 9781455559633 (hardback) | ISBN
9781455566037 (large print hardcover) | ISBN 9781478929932 (audiobook)
Subjects: LCSH: Vargas, Elizabeth—Health. | Alcoholics—Biography. |
Television news anchors—United States—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous.
Classification: LCC HV5275.V37 2016 | DDC 362.292092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016009767
E3-20160801-JV-NF