Mini Series 5 - Is commitment to recovery a make-or-break deal after leaving treatment?

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

In this podcast, we answer the question... Is commitment to recovery a make-or-break deal after leaving treatment?
By all means, yes.
Those of us who have been practitioners of the principles of recovery pay attention to the wisdom expressed in the literature and read at the AA and NA meetings.
A good example:
"Some of us tried to hold onto our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely".
The "old ideas" that this passage refers to is the absurd notion that an alcoholic can get and stay sober on their own willpower. What happens when the addict or alcoholic decides that they do not need NA or AA to stay sober?
They abandon the commitment they made a while ago in treatment to go all the way. Every day. Including becoming a part of the Fellowship.
This disease is so cunning, baffling, and powerful that it requires a higher power and the "we" fellowship to gain “a daily reprieve (that is) contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition".
A full commitment means action, not lip service. A full commitment means that we go "all in", that we surrender our old ways of thinking and acting and adopt a new way of living.
This is an all-or-nothing game. We get nothing unless we give everything.
That is why AA meetings start with this promise:
"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path".
If that is not about commitment, then what is?