What are ‘Abstinence’ and ‘Recovery’? A word about abstinence: abstinence, for the recovering alcoholic/addict, is simply not using alcohol or drugs. It is absolutely necessary and indispensable for achieving Recovery, but it is not Recovery itself. Recovery may be seen...
With the increased availability and legitimization of marijuana, I have met people at A.A. and N.A. meetings, recovering from “hard” drugs such as opiates and cocaine, who have made the decision to continue using marijuana to “relax” or to “unwind”....
Abstinence refers to complete avoidance of all mood-altering substances in Recovery. Harm Reduction, on the other hand, has often come to mean: the substitution or “replacement” of a toxic addictive substance with a less dangerous but analogous prescribed medication. Recently,...
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