The prospect of living without what seems to them their sole comfort, protector and enhancer, alcohol, is more than they can or will imagine. And so they continue to drink, often well aware of at least a substantial portion of the harm their drinking is doing to them. For bad as things are for them while drinking, the alternative, i.e. recovery, seems unquestionably worse - in fact, unendurable. Recovery at its simplest and indeed in its essence is about nothing more or less than the recovery of life itself. For addiction, which seems to be the friend and even the enhancer of life, is in reality its deadliest and most incorrigible adversary.
Recovery is the recovery of life and of freedom.
Yet it seems that this simple and amply confirmed knowledge is seldom effectively communicable to those who most need it, those for whom indeed in some cases it is literally a matter of life or death. East Shadowlawn Ave.