Like if I make the choice to drink. Then I make the choice to drive. Should I not be responsible for all what happens after my choice? Like now in Hollywood they are now going after the supposed drug dealers instead of blaming the star who made the choice to use hard drugs and they knew the consequences? Why should we celebrate or say good job to people who say I have been clean for such and such long? They made the choice to use whatever drug and they should live with the consequences. It should not be celebrated that they rectified a very wrong choice years ago when they were not suppose to make that decision in the first place or even put themselves in that position. Why should we feel any empathy? That would be like me getting a gun and shooting a random person, get a chip, and say I have been clean from killing people for 5 or whatever years.
You’re not celebrating the bad decision, you’re celebrating the correction of that decision. You shouldn’t get special treatment and as far as I know people dont. They go after drug dealers and drug users equally, from what I can see. The only ones that get special treatment are those with money and celebrities. I saw your post below that you got off oxy, thats amazing, you should be proud of yourself. You should consider yourself lucky you didnt kill anyone when you drove drunk. I’m happy to hear you’re getting your shit together, it takes work, but, there are no parties. AA gives you a coin you can hold onto. Everyone needs different levels of support and if you need less thats great, but, a lot of people need some encouragment and support. Its not a celebration more of a comradery of support.