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“So if ‘normal drinkers’ occasionally lose control and alcoholics occasionally gain it, the difference is surely not in an inherent physical or mental defect, but one of degree. Which would indicate what I’ve been saying all along: that an alcoholic is at an advanced stage of the same disease. If it is so obvious, why doesn’t society generally see it that way? Because it only becomes obvious once you open your mind, remove all the misconceptions, the myths and the brainwashing; when you use your common sense and accept the facts. But don’t under-estimate the power of the brainwashing. You would expect an ex-alcoholic to jump at the chance to see no longer having to poison themselves in its true light: as a heaven-sent release from an awful disease, rather than being deluded into feeling permanently deprived because they can no longer enjoy the pleasures of ‘normal’ drinking. But as much as they might wish to see it in its true light, no one is going to believe me just because I say so. I have to prove it them. It is easy for any drinker to solve their problem, when they can see drinking alcohol the way it really is.”
― Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Control Alcohol