We are talking about a very complicated illness here. This is life or death. People are dying EVERY DAY from this disease.
There's not a person on this forum who hasn't lived this.
I have personally buried thirty one people
because of alcoholism
and am deeply offended that anyone
would say such a thing on a recovery website
to people who live and breathe this reality every day.
All the statistical data in the world
is not going to change a simple fact -
and that is that recovery is based on the individual.
All the aggression in the world
all the documents
all the data
the questions
that have ever been asked
then put together to give a specific meaning
will not change that.
Human beings have free will.
And that will never change either.
In this forum
we support each other in our journey
to discover what our problems are with the problems.
We change from within.
And we try to be kind to each other here
because so few in our worlds make any effort to be.