My heart goes out to everyone who struggles with addiction and also to the families and friends of the alcoholics/addicts.
When those thoughts of using drugs and alcohol start to pop up, we need to really remember the pain of where it took us and think of what we really want in our lives. We need to look beyond those temporary using thoughts and play the tape all the way to the end.
We also need to do an honest evaluation of our motives and to check and make sure that we have no reservations in our recovery. Reservations will cause us to use again so we need to make sure that they are dealt with. Admission of total and complete powerlessness is what we really need to keep in our minds and our hearts. Insanity is making the same mistakes time and time again and expecting different results. That is when it is time to really look deep within and explore what we really want. Then, to make the steps to get in recovery we have to do what we need to do and not what we want to do.