Addiction is You. That might be a touch on the glib side, as slogans go, but it pretty well sums up the truth: Addiction is You. Addiction is who you are, how you live; addiction is everything about you: your essence, your being. An addict, after all, is thoroughly and profoundly an Addict. The disease is by its very nature more an identity than a condition, so that Addicts…victims of Addiction…in some ways quite literally become their Need.

And listen: The fact that addiction is You does not make it your fault. You are not to blame for your addiction; there is nothing you could do either in the positive or the negative that would do anything to change the fact of the thing itself. Remember, addiction is You. To beat it…to overcome addiction…you’ve got to change who You are. Short of that, you can’t ever expect to get sober for good

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