Did getting sober make me more conservative?
There’s a popular and important distinction in 12 step groups between the terms “abstinence” and “recovery”. “Abstinence” refers to the bare fact of stopping the addictive behavior, while “recovery” refers to everything else that you do to ensure that you don’t go back to the addictive behavior somewhere down the line. “Abstinence” is a precondition for…
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