Celebrating recovered addicts

Why do we celebrate addicts and alcoholics for getting sober? They’re just now doing what most of us have done all along—living life without destroying people. That’s not heroic, that’s baseline human behavior. Yet we give them a pedestal and they are treated as if they have achieved something. The victims of their destructive behavior are silenced by this. I’ve never been an addict even when i've lived and faced similar hardships in my life that lead others to substance abuse —where’s my praise for not wrecking my life and others?