Addiction, recovery, and the risk of relapse

I have to take some issue with his all-or-nothing attitude. While I won’t deny that there are a subset of addicts for whom that is the case, there are also plenty who it doesn’t apply to. I know a number of people who can’t touch alcohol, but don’t have any problem with weed. I also know some like me. I was an alcoholic for about a decade. I still drink, but I haven’t been drunk in five years. Insistence that all-or-nothing is the only way for every addict actually does a lot of harm, IMHO.

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