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Mary Reid

Mary Reid

Mary Reid is the Executive Director of Moderation Management and the author of Neighbor Kary May’s Handbook To Happily Drinking Less or Not Drinking At All, Quite Happily: With the help of online recovery community.

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Why it is dangerous not to include support for moderation in recovery

By: - April 21, 2021

When Demi Lovato announced that she was “California Sober” recently, we heard an outcry from people in the recovery support community who champion total abstinence. “It’s dangerous. If problem drinkers believe they can moderate, they will delay the inevitable choice of total abstinence or drink themselves to death.” “To tell someone like Demi that she […]