Originally Posted by
lostbutterfly 
This a quote from the RR website - while I don't agree with everything he says, I like this. This is "get a back bone" recovery!
When your addiction is over, it’s really over, and it’s for you to know and for others to find out. You can help them find out by first defeating the Beast of addiction, and then returning to your family, employer, and community as a solid, predictable character upon whom others can depend. If your family has a problem drinker or drug addict, let it be known to him or her that one-day-at-a-time sobriety is not good enough, and that common decency and family loyalty both demand a personal guarantee of lifetime abstinence from alcohol and other hedonic drugs
I love the non-nonsense aspect of RR. It's right up my street! This is epitomised in
The Case of Richard on page 274 of RR:TNC. As TU mentioned quite a while ago, if you skipped part III you should still give this bit a read. I think it's one of hte most important parts of the book.