Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
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In my opinion, once you have been a full blown addict for a long enough period you will always be an addict, even if it's not an active addiction anymore you will still be an addict. You will just be a recovering addict, there is no point in which you will ever be "cured" where you can wipe yourself clean like it never happened...
I disagree. There comes a point where, even if the individual still identifies as an addict, their addiction is entirely irrelevant, their experience of life entirely removed from the place they inhabited during active addiction.
That's precisely why I don't like the mainstream recovery paradigm, where it's posited that the only options are recovery or death. Because for a hell of a lot of people (from what I can tell it is the majority of people who have struggled with drugs at some point), there does come a time when their past experience of addiction is irrelevant to the daily comings and goings of their lives.