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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Dave, the people I have known who went to AA meetings always drank first, just to get through it. Or got high. It's a beast of a disease and his simplistic answers sound like bullshit.

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

Agreed. My late ex-wife went to meetings and died of late stage liver disease. I've known some folks who benefited from AA and are still sober 10 or 20 years on but the will has to be there. Antabuse plays no favorites; if you take it and drink alcohol you pay a heavy price.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

I am sorry you lost your wife to it. It's too hard for a lot of people who suffer from it.

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

Thanks. People who haven't experienced it only rarely can appreciate the nature and impact of addiction.

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TCinLA's avatar

Truer words haven't been written here in awhile, Dave.

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

Thanks Tom.

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JDinTX's avatar

Some try but canтАЩt

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TCinLA's avatar

Not "some." Most.

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JDinTX's avatar

Sadly true, but we sure hear more about those who donтАЩt. No mystery why.

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Maggie's avatar

My uncle belonged & benefited from AA - never stopped going! I guess it does work well with some people - not always tho.

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JDinTX's avatar

A beast but not even on a par with cult nuts

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TCinLA's avatar

AA is a cult.

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

It can be. It can also be two people who believe in sobriety.

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JDinTX's avatar

And see a path

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

Not so much a path as possibility as opposed to impossibility. Like is this really the way i want to die?

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JDinTX's avatar

I have seen two choose that

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