Originally Posted by
StevenSlate 
They're now being told more and more that they'll have to endure up to two years of "post acute withdrawal syndrome" (PAWS), and that makes change even less attractive. Terry Gorski's PAWS is just AA's "dry drunk" syndrome made to sound scientific. It's a fiction....
I'm struggling to understand how you can invalidate the personal experiences of millions of former drunks by claiming that PAWS is a fiction, or somehow related to another (different) concept from AA (the dreaded "dry drunk" label). Not everyone goes through the set of symptoms that typify early sobriety, and not everyone's symptoms last 2 years, but they are very common and there is a large body of information about it. It's a collection of common symptoms, not a "disease" or medical ailment, related to your recently unpickled brain trying to cope with reality, without alcohol. Countless millions of abstinent former drunks with personal experiences, many of them not associated in any way with AA, can't all be wrong...