TJBirish
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- May 21, 2019
You don't just stop taking Xanax and drinking alcohol that you've been consuming for years by sheer force of will. It takes months of physical and mental therapy. Could he stop for a day or two? Maybe, but you'd be able to tell. But out-and-out quitting? No way. He did what every addict does, drops his consumption down, maybe does replacement therapy, and counts the seconds until the stream is over until he can let loose.I think he was sober for those almost 2 months. You could tell the difference in his streams. He was alert and coherent and it's very hard for people "hiding" their use to not fall off in a very noticeable way very quickly.
What happens a lot with people in recovery is that they are pursuing sobriety for selfish reasons. Not because they want to be better people, but because they see this as a quick way to "repair" damage done during their use.
Ralph likely thought all he had to do was make an effort at sobriety and then he deserved to have Meigh and his family back. When he found out it wasn't a magic cure-all, he stopped seeing a purpose in sobriety.
Don't you think if he had been sober he would have been using that breathalizer every day to own the a logs?