1st Person — A Greener Day
The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I've noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 1, 2024 | Recovery | 0 |
The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I've noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.
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She had to relearn truthfulness, a day at a time, much the way the victim of a serious stroke might have to relearn speech.
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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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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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