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More Likely To Get Sober if.....

1 May 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains that people who were functioning adults before developing an addiction—who had developed healthy adulting skills and life wisdom and may have only used substances non-problematically earlier—are more likely to achieve sobriety. The speaker argues those pre-existing skills remain beneath the addiction and can support recovery.

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The factors that someone that's more likely to get sober. If someone was an adult and was a functioning adult before they became addicted, maybe they drank alcohol, but they didn't drink it problematically. Maybe they did some drugs here, there in college, whatever, but they weren't addicted to them. And the reason why this is so important is because it means that this person has developed good, healthy adulting skills and they have some wisdom there, and they have some skills and abilities there that even though the addiction takes over, those are still there underneath. And I do think that makes someone more likely to get sober than not.