Originally Posted by
AlericB 
Without a decision to never drink again there will be no AV suggesting the opposite, therefore no ambivalence and therefore no addiction, would you agree?
I wish I could agree. Wouldn't that be a wonderful world. I do agree that some people (probably a lot more than we know) decide to never drink again upon their very first twinge of ambivalence, but our society is so overrun by the Addictive Voice with huge industries coddling IT, that when the ambivalence finally surfaces in an alcohol/drug dependent user, it often takes a painfully longer period of time to finally get to making a Big Plan. And many don't make it there at all.