“Denial” has become part of the common jargon.
Like most common jargon, it is bullshit.
Now that alcohol and drug recovery has become a industry, any person who gets drunk or high has to admit he has a disease called addiction or alcoholism is “in denial.”
To repeat, now that drug and alcohol recovery has become an industry, everybody, at least everybody who has medical insurance, needs “treatment.”
The Big Book, which is as close to an official statement as AA or NA has, states a heresy to the recovery industry:
“Most people who have a drinking problem are not alcoholics.”
But, as the saying goes, “If you want to hide something in AA, put it in the Big Book.”
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