Originally Posted by Zencat

I do know alcoholics who seem to have been able to stop drinking, and then go about their business as if nothing had happened, changing little of their life and lifestyle. I think, however, those people are rare exceptions. Just as I believe there are some really hard cases who need (as in can't make it without it) very extreme strategies such as "Tough Love", Synanon or the like. Most people, I imagine, are somewhere between those two extremes.