Can Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics Attend Holiday Parties Safely?
09 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial, Family and Friends, Questions & Answers, Recovery, Sober Living Tags: addiction and holidays
Obviously, people in early recovery are more vulnerable than folks who have been clean and sober for several years. Newcomers have not yet replaced their old habits — developed over years of using — with newer, healthier reflexes.There is a real possibility that being in a drinking (and perhaps drugging) environment could massively trigger a desire to use. This is also possible when we are further along in recovery, but by then most people have learned to deal better with situations that might be triggers.
Nonetheless, there is no reason that we can’t attend holiday parties with relative safety, so long as we follow some simple guidelines.
Shel
Bill
