Originally Posted by longwayfromhome
Maybe I am not an alky. Maybe I am just a drug user? Does it matter?
The interesting thing is that if a person is either an alcoholic or an alcohol abuser the consequences can be the same. Both illness's can damage a person mentally, emotionally and physically equally.
What mattered for me was to formulate a plan of action to address my problem and then follow through. Personally I could care less what my illness is called except to know that there is an effective single treatment that can be applied to alcoholism or alcohol abuse. For me that treatment was SMART Recovery. With SMART there is no mucking about with labels.