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Can you fight the disease of alcohol addiction and still be a social drinker? Making such a stance was heretical only a generation ago. Yet controlled drinking, as it is called, has emerged as an accepted treatment option for those who find abstinence too daunting.
While there are SOME alcoholics who can do controlled drinking, the number is very, very few.
The whole b.s. about controlled drinking is because alcohlics want to drink, and given the option of controlled drinking, they will almost always report they are doing so successfully in order to keep drinking.
Can you fight the disease of alcohol addiction and still be a social drinker? Making such a stance was heretical only a generation ago. Yet controlled drinking, as it is called, has emerged as an accepted treatment option for those who find abstinence too daunting.
While there are SOME alcoholics who can do controlled drinking, the number is very, very few.
The whole b.s. about controlled drinking is because alcohlics want to drink, and given the option of controlled drinking, they will almost always report they are doing so successfully in order to keep drinking.