Topic: relapse

If you’ve been down that road, making repeated attempts to control use or to stop and stay stopped, only to fall fall flat, you should eventually realize that what works for others just doesn’t work for you

Alcoholics have never had much success giving up drinking while using some other sedative. Often it results in a problem with the second substance.

Few of us are ever as dedicated to a goal as the addict is to seeking an alternative to abstinence.

One study indicated that it could take as little as 33 milliseconds to trigger a craving. If something only lasts three one-hundredths of a second, you’re probably not going to be aware of it.

Something serious is wrong, and it’s not being handled at all well.

Look what’s happened to the public image of rehab as a result of those awful high-profile celeb incidents.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.

This is really about a continuous process of change. The unifying force is the addict’s subjective experience.

He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.

Either way, it’s the drugs and alcohol that wind up killing the addict — not abstinence.