Originally Posted by
keithj 
And thanks for the reasoned manner of discussion. The definition or label matters only insofar as it's useful.
Exactly. And thanks to you, as well, for your reasoned discussion. I believe I am doing well on my "program." I was doing meth and drinking basically every day, and from January 2 to now I have used one time, two months ago. No weaning off, no detox; I just stopped. I fully realize this is not an option for the majority of people though.
Getting too bogged down in the semantics doesn't seem to aid recovery. If we're both getting better using our solutions to whatever we call our particular problems.... perfect. My reasons for drinking and doing drugs had nothing to do with yours so it follows that our solutions would not necessarily have anything to do with each other.
And, people are RARELY treated like they don't belong here, thankfully. But it does occasionally happen.