So often we hear phrases from normies such as, “Just don’t pick up,” Or “Don’t take that first drink and you won’t get drunk.” Typically, addicts arrive into treatment like a bleeding victim in a hospital emergency room. The focus is all about stopping the bleeding, emergency surgery, monitoring blood pressure, and heartbeat. Then, when the patient is stabilized they transition to the ICU, and then to a lower care hospital room to rest and recover. Such is it with the addict and alcoholic. 12-step meetings may conjure up images of cigarette smoking, and coffee, cookies, and donuts. And although…

It has been used so often that sometimes it can seem that, “One Day At A Time,” is just an old, overused, cliche. In recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism, it becomes a comforting reality that all we have to do is to stay clean and sober one day at a time. To project that one can never drink alcohol or use drugs ever again is too much to fathom for those in early recovery, or at any stage in their recovery, for that matter. We are given tools, support, meetings, sponsors, phone numbers, the 12 steps, and much more,…