Just found this AA pamphlet in my stash of literature and thought, "How true this is. How often we compare and stay sick. How some have used just alcohol while others admit to other addictions such as work, food, gambling, drugs (all types), religion, exercise, excessive cleaning and order, and the list goes on. It has been my experience that those who have added crack to their already addictive behavior, hit a bottom so much faster than others, and yet it is one of the hardest to get off. There are so many 'new' drugs out there that were not a part of the scene when I was there.
How many 'pure' alcoholics are there out there! What makes you think you are different or do you?
Alcohol is a drug?
Posted in 2004
I have seen so many people die as a result of finding recovery and then substituting their drug of choice for other things, and end up going back out there and dying.
A friend of mine just died on the weekend. A long time friend told me she was a pure alcoholic, then admitted to having a problem with gambling and having to go and get help. She said, "But I am an alcoholic first!"
I just reconnected with a girl who I met in treatment 13 years ago, she just got her beginners tag in CA. She had one year in AA at one time. I had a call from a friend on Saturday, he had 18 months, and has been out doing research for four years. It was good to know he was still alive.
For me, I am an addict who used alcohol, just like I did many people, places and things in my life. (Relationships, my job and my bed, pills and volunteer work).