The threshold requirement for a successful recovery from addictive disease is a gut level acknowledgement (not just intellectual) that you can no longer use drugs or alcohol without loss of control and ensuing negative consequences that outweigh any short term high or mood change from use. Any notion that you can somehow, some day, under some circumstance use drugs or alcohol successfully must be banished from your mind. Usually the only way to arrive at this state of mind is through much pain and proof to yourself that cannot use and get way with it. Are you there, yet?
Jan Edward Williams, MS, JD, LCADC
Licensed Addictions Counselor
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