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This quote is from a Star-Tribune article<\/a> about Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s recent death from an apparent heroin overdose:<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t take your sobriety for granted,\u201d said Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer at Hazelden. \u201cThis is a lifelong illness. People have got to stay wary for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n From the outside this seems like it shouldn’t be true. \u00a0You get sobriety under your belt, you have experience and knowledge, why should you get into trouble? \u00a0Because the thing that alcoholics do normally is drink. \u00a0The thing heroin users do normally is use. \u00a0Not to use, once you’ve passed over into addiction, is the abnormal condition. \u00a0That means that sobriety is a lifelong commitment to an abnormal standard.<\/p>\n It can be done. \u00a0I’ve done it. \u00a0So far. \u00a0At times, the farther away from 1976 that I get, a thought wanders through: is it really true? \u00a0That’s a slippery thought and treatment teaches us to stay out of slippery places. \u00a0But the point is that it has to be countered even now, 38 years sober.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Valentine Moon This quote is from a Star-Tribune article about Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s recent death from an apparent heroin overdose: \u201cYou can\u2019t take your sobriety … Continue reading You Can’t Take It For Granted<\/span>