Thanksgiving can be a tough time for those in recovery from substance abuse. You may visit family or friends who serve alcohol and insist that everyone have a drink. They don’t understand addiction. They think because they can have one drink and stop that everyone else can too. We know the truth. Perhaps family and friends don’t insist, but you drink to avoid feeling like the odd one there. In a desperate attempt to fit in, you take that drink and begin the vicious cycle of drinking or drugging