If You Don’t Want It Bad, Don’t Bother

Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a drinker who is considering quitting like a person with 30 years of sobriety who still attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. You mean he’s not fixed yet? He’s still got to attend these damn meetings to keep from drinking? What the sober curious don’t yet understand — what nobody outside the recovery community understands, frankly — is that sobriety is not a cure. Sobriety is a…