Milestones On the Road to Sobriety an Educator's Experience Reveals the Power of Hope

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I had been a year and a half in AA. I had been through six weeks of intensive alcoholism treatment. Now I felt so good I decided I could be a social drinker - it's called the insanity of addiction.

A woman who was an outpatient alcoholism counselor at the rehab program sat at my table as I started to drink the bottle of beer I had just bought. I was trying very hard to convince her that now, I was truly a social drinker.

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Milestones On the Road to Sobriety an Educator's Experience Reveals the Power of Hope

She sat looking very depressed. She had reached out to me, she had listened to my story, she had talked to me, she had supported my sobriety - she cared. Her look of sadness and futility was spoiling my drinking. As a true alcoholic, this annoyed me. She stared at the brown bottle, then spoke:

"That b...

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