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For the same reason an alcoholic shouldn't try to moderate their drinking.

• nradov 8y ago
  Where's the proof of that? I've known people who at some point would have met the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism, and yet managed to moderate their drinking on their own without quitting or going to AA or anything like that. Obviously that doesn't work for everyone but I wouldn't glibly dismiss the possibility.
  • dionidium 8y ago
    I suspect (and science is starting to suggest) that addiction is more of a spectrum than a binary and my comment is really just about the people toward the far ends of those spectrums. The fact that your friends could moderate, while there plainly exist the graves of those who couldn't, also supports this view.