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Joe Gatte of Evangeline was 16 years old when he drank Budweiser for the first time. He ultimately spent the next two decades of his life trying to sober up from the beer, as well as the marijuana, prescription pills, crystal meth, heroin and fentanyl that all followed it.

“I puked everywhere,” Gatte remembered of his first experience with something he wasn’t supposed to have – a couple of alcoholi…

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