Maybe they just saw it as none of their damn business, so long as he showed up on time and didn’t embarrass them. It’s the sort of accommodation people make all the time in response to someone else’s excessive drinking in a social or work situation.
Nonetheless, years of drinking and drugging and lapsing and relapsing will invariably have an effect on the victim of addiction.
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As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.
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Nine months ago I was rummaging through your garbage for 5¢ cans. Today I am an author.
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If there’s one drug we’re all reluctant to give up, it’s our prejudices.
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It was as if he were speaking my story- different people, same ending.
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He perceives it as gradual when in reality it’s progressing rather quickly.
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And I needed that gift of desperation to allow the rest of the Steps to work in my life, as I worked them.
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He burned through more than a few sponsors before settling with an older gentlemen who’d gotten clean and sober following a career as a Baltimore drug thug and a stretch in state prison.
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The author’s biggest issue is “himself.” He fought a constant battle for perfection, to show that he was as good as anyone else.
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Blogs by recovering folks, about sobriety, sober living, and the perils of taking yourself seriously.
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