If you’re involved with an active addict or substance abuser, you will be lied to and made a chump of: It’s axiomatic. As when Elizabeth Gilbert’s friend and eventual lover, Rayya Elias, assures Gilbert and the rest of their circle that the little bottles of Angostura bitters she keeps stowed in her purse and habitually chugs straight from the bottle while claiming to be sober—indeed, while attending AA meetings and publishing a well-received memoir about her victory over substance addiction—