My Uneasy Relationship with Twelve Step

This is a blog entry I wrote back in July, and am posting for the first time here. I have sent a copy of this entry to several magazines for potential publication.

I have been clean for more than twenty years, after having lived a life of using copious amounts of alcohol and recreational drugs. That’s how I usually say it, that I’ve been clean all of these years, but to some people who aren’t down with the Bill Wilson way of speaking I might say I’ve been clean and sober for more than twenty years, which is something that would upset a lot of twelve steppers. (At least the Narcotics Anonymousers.)

And that’s part of the problem, which will become apparent.

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