total waste of time, trying to engage devoutly religious people. Better to just stay away from the train wreck & watch from afar.
but your friend should study more about addiction & see that addiction is an oddity whereby the most harmful aspects of the disease can be cured by willpower instead of medication. He finds the pain of his addictions is less painful then living without them. With dedication, time & social support, those pains subside.
At least he can lean on an organized moral construct to provide that social support, unlike 12 step programs that encourage people to surrender to a god of their own choosing, a wishy washy, anything goes moral system.
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