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Why some New Year’s resolutions to stop drinking/drugging don’t work

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As Executive Director of SOZO Addiction Recovery Center, and a recovering alcoholic myself, i have seen thousands of failed resolutions to stop the addictive use of alcohol and/or drugs.

Every single failed resolution had two critical shortcomings:  

  1. The resolution was made in the solitude of a struggling person’s own mind and
  2. There was no program of recovery that followed the resolution.

Those of us who have achieved recovery from addiction have learned that stopping substance abuse is a “we process”. None of us made it alone.

To help increase your chances that your 2022 resolution to quit drinking/drugging has every chance to succeed, give SOZO Addiction Recovery Center a call to talk to a friendly staff member in confidence about finding a sober lifestyle that is happy, joyous and free.

2022 can be your greatest year yet!

Bob O’Dowd, Executive Director