Dr. Dustin Dunbar argues you don't need daily meetings or sponsors to quit drinking. Instead, he says reframe alcohol as poison and swap it for alcohol-free drinks. His approach ditches traditional recovery structures for what he calls an Alcohol-Free Revolution.
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You don't have to sit there and white-knuckle it. Like, I, I see a beer now with real ethanol in it, and I'm just like, oh, it makes me burp. Like, literally, I go, oh my God, there's 5% ethanol in that can. Versus alcohol-free beer, I'm like, yeah, that's great, let's go and, uh, and enjoy it and everything. But it's, it's, it's one of those things where you just, after a while, you just have to give back, and you have to go, man, I can help a lot of people not have the pain and to be easily overcome alcohol addiction compared to going meetings every day, uh, you know, and, and being in groups and having major sponsors, all this stuff, and having to do all these things. It's, it's really not that way anymore where you can, uh, overcome alcohol addiction just like cigarettes, and it doesn't have to be this ongoing thing. You can see alcohol as disgusting, cancer-causing poison. And the people that I work with and everybody in our Alcohol-Free Revolution, uh, that's the way we do it.