COTTERisms

When alcoholics and addicts "hit bottom" one of two things will happen. Either they will bounce or they will go splat. Why wait to see which it will be?

Thinking alcoholism is a phase is like thinking baldness is a phase.

If you wait for an alcoholic to self-diagnose their
problem, you'll still be waiting at their funeral.

If you're close enough to someone to know they have a problem, you are close enough to help.

As long as there is a cushion, the drinker will drink and the user will use.

Yelling at an alcoholic about their drinking is like yelling at the umpire at a baseball game, you might feel a little better, but nothing changes.

An alcoholic will drink when prudence, logic and past experience prohibit
it.

Always remember, a family, if they want to, can undo six months of work
in six seconds.

No one ever got clean and sober without some form of intervention.

The only thing worse that being an addict is living with one.

Half the time drug-addicts are afraid they're going to die; the other half, they're afraid they're not going to die.

No matter how hurt, lost, or despairing a person may be, it doesn't have
to be that way.

When a person starts to slip, the world is greased for the occasion!