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Originally Posted by noonereal

I am not addressing the issue of a person not wanting to stop drinking. I was speaking to the best use of one last bottle of alcohol to someone physically addicted.

and I disagree that someone who has abused alcohol and has been labeled an alcoholic by the AA organization can never drink again without being a fall down drunk again.

I apologize with my lack of patience on this but it is frustrating to me how people just accept past practice as best without ever questioning. How people accept titles for knowledge or correctness on a subject...

peace brother

Using the last bottle as you suggest can and frequently does lead to an alcoholic seizure.

AA doesn't label anyone anything. Determining whether someone is an alcoholic is something they must work out for themselves.

There are doubtlessly some people around who can return to drinking and experience no problems but they are a very small minority and probably fall into the category of the "problem drinkers" your article mentions as opposed to people who are alcohol dependent, IOW addicts. Different problem, different solutions - except that total abstinence, if you can manage it, always works whereas trying to drink in moderation rarely does. So, where's the percentage in taking that risk?

It's empirical, ed. Abstinence works.