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I think it depends on if the alcoholic is using the recommended treatment. Yes, some need repeated rehab, but are they going, are they committed to getting better, most of the time, because, if they aren't, I don't think it's unreasonable to drop them.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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