Originally Posted by
Tatsy 
I truly wish that more newcomers, on the 'newcomers thread' would visit this part of SR.
AVRT is like cyanide to the Beast, and their Addictive Voice is almost certainly telling them to do anything and everything except to actually quit drinking or using for good, and to learn how to stick to that decision. This includes not venturing down here, where their Beast knows, or at least suspects, that it will have nowhere to hide.
"Never say never to the possible future use of alcohol and other drugs" is the cardinal rule of addiction itself, and AVRT is the learned skill of catching yourself in the process of changing your mind after finally doing the obvious, and deciding to violate that cardinal rule. What self-respecting Beast would want to allow that to happen?