Ideally, he/she wouldn't drink. A drug is a drug is a drug, no matter the form it comes in, and NA includes in their meeting readings a little blurb that says "Alcohol is a drug - period."
Some still look on alcohol as being separate or different which would easily lead to a relapse. Conversely, some alcoholics won't look on, say, taking painkillers as an addiction because their problems are just with alcohol. The disease is a tricky thing.
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:26 pm (UTC)Some still look on alcohol as being separate or different which would easily lead to a relapse. Conversely, some alcoholics won't look on, say, taking painkillers as an addiction because their problems are just with alcohol. The disease is a tricky thing.