One of the more common questions around treatment centers and the recovery fellowships goes something like,”I’m addicted to prescription drugs, not alcohol, so why can’t I have a drink? What’s this cross-addiction I’ve heard about?”

That’s really not an unreasonable question. Why do addicts who don’t seem to have problems with alcohol need to stay away from it anyway? Why can’t a prescription drug addict have a few drinks?

There are really two reasons:

• Alcohol reduces our inhibitions and increases the likelihood that we will make bad choices; and
• Just as they say in the rooms, “A drug is a drug is a drug.”

Read more: http://sunrisedetox.com/blog/2013/04/29/cross-addiction-detox-recovery-relapse/