I am in the harm reduction camp.

Total abstentience is best for some ppl, and I love it for them.
But even within abstenience, I feel that identifying as an addict forever
is counterproductive.

The way you frame ideas in your mind matters.

a slip up isn't a catastrophe.
it's a mistake.

take a controled, measured response and move on.




>Anyway, I think you're inferring a defeatist tone in "You're
>never truly cured". This is just what I've seen expressed by
>some addicts struggling with sobriety... what you've expressed
>is how they manage to cope with that realization. Either way,
>an occasional indulgence is not part of their program to beat
>their addiction.
>
>I wasn't thinking of all addictions though, like smoking, so
>YMMV.