THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OFF DRUGS OR DRINK: USE THE STRENGTH OF RECOVERING ADDICTS-USE THE PHONE

At your first meeting, the other people there will offer you their phone numbers. Take them. Take every single phone number you can get and use it.
You may feel: T shouldn’t ring. They were just being kind. They won’t want to be bothered.’
This is the kind of thinking that interferes with your recovery. People who gave you their phone numbers did so in expectation that you would ring them. You are helping them to remember when they needed help.
And it is the phone that will give you a lifeline at the times you are not at meetings. You can ring if a craving suddenly hits you at work. You can ring first thing in the morning before you go to work. Or you can ring last thing at night, when you are perhaps alone and frightened.
Pick up the phone instead of picking up drugs or drink.
This is an NA and AA saying that has kept many an addict and alcoholic clean and sober. But the idea is to pick up the phone before, not after.

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