How to Do an Intervention for an Alcoholic: If an Alcoholic Quits Drinking as a Result of AA, Then They Will Always Be an Alcoholic?

Question by Grasshopper: If an alcoholic quits drinking as a result of AA, then they will always be an alcoholic?
but if they quit drinking on their own, they are no longer an alcoholic after they quit permanently?
Difficult to understand.
Why would someone who quit ON THEIR OWN for decades and died sober have been considered an alcoholic when they died?

Best answer:

Answer by JIM
Any alcoholic who quits is a reformed alcoholic. AA provide no treatment, merely the therapy of discussing your problem with sympathetic souls and feeling encouraged as a result

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