Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - July

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July 21

New Opportunities For Addiction

A physician with ten years of quality sobriety, on staff at a rehab center, developed high blood pressure, for which his doctor prescribed Valium. The doctor suggested the physician's wife keep the medication and dispense it daily, but the physician saved up all four pills so he could get a buzz taking them together. Within days he had relapsed. That an intelligent person who is actively involved in treating addiction and understands it thoroughly can do something so self-destructive is nothing less than baffling. We are always recovering. We must always be on guard, because chemicals are baffling.