[Anna]

Hi Jeff,

I think addiction is addiction, but it does affect each of us differently. I never drank until my mid-forties and when I turned to alcohol, I became addicted almost immediately and went downhill very quickly.

Some people are able to stop drinking or drugging as they going down. They have not yet reached a point where they feel they need to stop forever. But, alcoholism is a progressive disease and they will likely get worse as time goes on.

I'm not an AA person, but I would think that people who sober up temporarily go to AA because they do want to stop drinking, at least on some level. They may find comfort in knowing that they are not alone. We are all on this journey together.