Really? As though it has a mind of it's own... Okay. Yet it was you who had "become a daily drinker without an off switch, with no ability to moderate."

I don't really care how people want to get to functional lives once they have made a mess of them - I know how I did it and have lived for the past 20 years sober/clean or "alcohol-free" - but I do not and cannot blame the drugs and alcohol. That makes no sense. However, if that works for you, if that's what keeps you from destroying your life and, more importantly, the lives of those around you, more power to you and those in this "nascent movement."

Apparently alcoholics are no longer alcoholics anymore, they suffer from "alcohol use disorder" and addicts are no longer addicts, they suffer from "substance use disorder." Easy, softer ways. Again, whatever works. I don't care. I'm all about people finding whatever path works to a better life, be that church with a capital "G" god, 12-steps, SMART, a "coach," new terminology, all these new insights from the newly sober (sorry, alcohol-free) on Medium, anything that works. I am tired of watching people die. If being "alcohol-free" is more effective than being sober, be alcohol-free. But hopefully that means making other good decisions, too, because I have seen what abstinence and only abstinence looks like, too.