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Addiction & Recovery

rzemanfl

(30,369 posts) Mon Oct 26, 2020, 07:45 PM Oct 2020

My alcoholic son tells me AA condones drinking for pain relief. [View all]

That sure as hell is news to me and I've been sober for 35 years. I am certain he is bullshitting me. He is using a herniated disk as an excuse for relapsing. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

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My alcoholic son tells me AA condones drinking for pain relief. [View all] rzemanfl Oct 2020 OP

Lol. He is Dead Wrong JDC Oct 2020 #1

You are not wrong...at all Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #2

I broke my kneecap ten years after I got sober. rzemanfl Oct 2020 #12

Go with your gut. TygrBright Oct 2020 #3

I have a big book, autographed by the people I was in treatment with in 1985, rzemanfl Oct 2020 #13

News to me Shibainu Oct 2020 #4

I won't hit 36 until next year. rzemanfl Oct 2020 #11

Alcoholics are known for stretching the truth dlk Oct 2020 #5

Absolute bullshit. AA does not "condone" drinking for any reason. However.... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #6

AA most emphatically does NOT condone drinking for any reason Mountain Mule Oct 2020 #7

He had a sponsor. I don't think he does anymore. But he lies, so who knows? n/t rzemanfl Oct 2020 #9

Yeah, sponsors get in the way of drinking Mountain Mule Oct 2020 #15

I have thought about alanon, but the plague has made us rzemanfl Oct 2020 #17

Many meetings online now cally Nov 2020 #18

Thanks, I will look into that. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2020 #19

I am in a very good rehab right now, kozar Oct 2020 #8

Don't let him drink. applegrove Oct 2020 #10

I don't but he does. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2020 #14

Vibes to you both. applegrove Oct 2020 #16