Originally Posted by
ReadyAndAble 
Total, complete ownership of our choices—I like that a lot. It's empowering.
It is indeed, R&A. One my favorite chapters in
RR: The New Cure is chapter 14 (
"Stay Who You Are"), where Jack discusses how society expects addicted people to "get help" rather than cease and desist drug use. He points out that cigarette pack warnings sometimes recommend quitting smoking, but that no public service announcement or commercial advertisement ever recommends quitting alcohol or drugs.
Give it a few more years, though, and much like those TV commercials, cigarette packs may instead say
"Quitting sucks. NRT can help." 
Originally Posted by Jack Trimpey
The central message of AVRT is, “There is no help for you. You are on your own!” That liberating message can prompt you to take responsibility for your conduct, or allow your Beast to run rampant. That decision is yours, not your Beast’s.
You summed things up quite nicely yourself in another thread:
Originally Posted by ReadyAndAble
This could be Rational Recovery's tagline:
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” ~ Epictetus