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.
Can Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics
Attend Holiday Parties Safely?
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A Unique Experience
A man can never know what it is like to bear a child. If we can agree on that, then perhaps you’ll be able to follow along with me when I say that no non-addict will ever be able to understand exactly where an addict or alcoholic is coming from.
The experience of addiction is incomprehensible, on a gut level, to anyone who hasn’t been there. I can tell you that withdrawal from heroin, Oxycontin, methadone or other opiates is like the worst case of flu you’ve ever had, multiplied several times, and you still won’t really get it. MoreAddicts, Alcoholics and Holiday Parties: What’s A Hostess To Do?
12 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Family and Friends, Life Issues, Sober Living
Bill, over at Sunrise Detox Blog, has written a great article about dealing with party guests who are in recovery. Please spread it around. It’s good stuff.
Addicts, Alcoholics and Holiday Parties:What’s A Hostess To Do?
Full disclosure: “Bill” is our own dear Bill, as well as my husband.
Shel
Bill
