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Addiction Counseling and Other Important Stepping Stones on the Road to Recovery • Deciding to Get Clean & Sober – If you are under the care of a primary care physician, then you should consult with them before you decide anything. Their dependence on drugs, alcohol etc. might make it difficult to withdraw from a substance. The doctor might even be able to recommend a good addiction counselor to you. • Deciding to Get Clean & Sober – If you are under the care of a primary care physician, then you should consult with them before you decide anything. Their dependence on drugs, alcohol etc. might make it difficult to withdraw from a substance. The doctor might even be able to recommend a good addiction counselor to you. • From Being Sober to Recovery – Don’t think of recovery as a transformation of who you are as a person. You might think you will change and become someone greater than who used to be. You’d want all the friends and family that you have lost along the way to return to you. You might evenwant to get better quickly so you can go back to working. Such thoughts do not make the right combination for healing.