Another thing that popped to mind...
People sometimes misunderstand what it means when 12 step fellowships say they are powerless over alcohol or powerless over their addiction. That is a long discussion, but one of the most important is that we have the ability to decide if we have the first one. After the first one, the second is a foregone conclusion. So is the twentieth.
As the NA "how it works" reading puts it - "the only way to keep from returning to active addiction is not to take that first drug"