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Old 04-17-2017, 05:17 PM
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biminiblue
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What is the purpose of asking? Are you thinking of going to moderate use?

I know people who have quit and gone back and *seem* to be okay. Who knows if they really are okay, though? Since alcoholism is highly individual and complicated and full of secrecy and deceit when using, I don't think there is a way to really answer that. I've also known people who quit/go back and died pretty quickly.

I mean, I knew I had alcoholic behaviors in my early twenties. I quit drinking in my early thirties. In my fifties I started to drink again socially, and I moderated for several years - one or two a day, couple days a week - then I didn't any more. So, did I moderate? Or what would you call that? If you would have asked the question in the first couple years I came back to drinking, I would have said, "Yes."

Now I wouldn't make such a foolish claim. It is insidious and progressive.

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