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The Truth About Addiction and Recovery - Why It Doesn’t Make Sense To Call Addiction A “Disease” Contents | Introduction | Chapter 2 | ePUB | Further Reading Stanton Peele, Ph.D., and Archie Brodsky with Mary Arnold (1992), The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, Inc., pp. 19–46. We frequently hear from people who say: “I drink too much sometimes, but I don’t think I’m an alcoholic. And I don’t want to stand up and talk about myself in front of a group. “I’m overweight, but I understand that people are born to be fat and there’s not much you can do about it.

“I saw an ad saying the only way to lick your addiction to nicotine is by going to a doctor. “My father was an alcoholic. “My son was caught smoking marijuana. People are much concerned about bad habits (which sometimes reach life-consuming proportions) that they’d like to do something about-drinking, smoking, overeating, taking drugs, gambling, overspending, or even compulsive romancing. Furthermore, as a society, how should we deal with these problems? Myths Versus Realities Addictions are forever. AA Speakers. Stinkin' Thinkin' Community | Activity Directory. 12 Step. Recovery Humor At It's Darkest.

Exposing homeopathy. Recovering Alcoholics WebRing. Modern Drunkard Magazine. Addiction Inbox. * ARID * Articles: 2005/10/10: 12-Step Assumptions and Fallacies * ARID * Monday, October 10, 2005 - dr.bomb The core of Alcoholics Anonymous is its program known as the Twelve Steps. This is the original version from the original manuscript as published in multilithed book form in 1938(1): Admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care and direction of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Notice that there are zero instructions within the steps regarding abstinence from recreational drugs, health, self-effacy and personal liberation.

Step One is false. Step Two is false. Step Three is, by extension of Step Two, is false and shows A.A.' And who ultimately gets to define what God is? 4. 8. And what are these sins comprised of? 10. 11. AA Mollys Unofficial UK Alcoholism Recovery. Discussions - to consider aa a dangerous cult? Discussions - Am I being unreasonable? Here's the preface because I can't do links.Could anyone provide any evidence of any randomized trials at all that prove that aa has a success rate of more than 5%? Can anyone explain why it is unacceptable to question this? Of course it would be bad to denigrate a treatment that worked. That is why I am saying this stuff. It does a lot of harm and I would like some proof that it does good.

I haven't been to weightwatchers and I don't know how they measure there success rates but the ones who do lose weight can work for ww, and be presented as a success. So the success stories are a small, self-selected group of successes. I don't have access to the bmj or other medical journals. Please? Thank you name changed on page 38. Here is the preface to 12 step horror stories.Read it if you, or anyone you know, is drinking unhealthily.

And I am fine. And this book is about helping those in AA and NA, not hurting them. This book serves several purposes. How have you set yourself up for all this? Deprogramming from Alcoholics Anonymous. The Addiction Recovery Information Distribution Site (The ARID Site) Alcoholics Anonymous - Encyclopedia Dramatica. Tempest in a Teapot. I've been following a discussion on another forum. The original question in the thread was whether or not AA was a religion, and that is what caught my eye. But get this -- the arguments have gone on for more than six months and three thousand posts! That's huge. Granted, it is a skeptical forum and anything smelling of religion is usually hit pretty hard. But what's amazing to me is all the passion and polarization. Each side of the issue seems to have many dogs in the hunt -- there's the original religion question; there's material about whether or not alcoholism is even a disease; there's a bunch about AA as an organization; and finally, there are many stories about how AA either helped or hurt someone's chance at sobriety.

Here, on an anonymous forum, you get all sides of the spectrum. You can read the thread here: JREF but fair warning, it can be a storm at times. So, yes. Exposing quackery and abuse in the addictions treatment industry : Terra Sigillata. The 75th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous has brought out a spate of legacy media articles about the organization, most singing the praises of an unscientific movement begun during The Great Depression that still forms the basis of many clinical drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs. My post Thursday on Brendan Koerner’s Wired article brought out a very thoughtful commenter and sharp writer, friendthegirl. I learned that ftg writes the blog, Stinkin’ Thinkin’: Muckraking the 12-Step Industry. Stinkin’ Thinkin’ was started with the intention highlighting the quackery and abuse that is the foundation of the addictions treatment industry – with a view toward building community among people who are questioning the only game in town.We will post news stories; expose how the inmates treat each other in their asylum, provide resources and information.

Most importantly, Peele stresses that AA alternatives should be considered in treatment plans. Why should you care? Is AA right about human nature? | The question. A alcoholic drink is served. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Alcoholics Anonymous was founded 75 years ago this week. Its success (it has helped millions stop drinking) is founded on a belief that we can be saved only through submission to a higher power.

Recovering alcoholics are encouraged to view themselves as chronically ill, and remain so no matter how long they have been sober. They are thus not cured of their addictive impulses (which many come to believe they were born with), but simply learn to control them. The debate about human nature this embodies can be found in many domains: in theology it's Augustine vs Pelagius, in psychology the medical vs experiential models of mental illness. Monday's response Mary Kenny: I don't buy everything about AA – but when something works, tolerance is surely called for Wednesday's response Dorothy Rowe: Addiction is a defence against a life or memories too difficult to bear.

Friday's response Saturday's response. Ranes Report. The Clean Slate Addiction Site — Addiction is not a disease, it is a choice. Alcoholics anonymous. Orange Papers. Aacultwatch forum. Can you spot the real national tragedy? For most of the seven-plus decades since its founding in 1935, little in this country has been so mythologized as Alcoholics Anonymous and its special place in American society. Certainly during its first three decades, before other mainstream alternatives began appearing (and differenti ating themselves by questioning AA's methods, albeit still with some delicacy), perhaps nothing in our culture was so untouchable, so off-limits as a topic for serious debate, as AA.

This attitude is still largely intact, and I encountered it in spades during the 2005 media push for SHAM. Those of you who've read the book know that I was pretty hard on AA—as hard as I was on any single facet of the SHAMscape. As a result, in almost every phone-in show I did, and I did dozens, I received a call that began with some version of the following: "How dare you! All I know is, my [father, mother, brother, uncle, etc.] wouldn't be alive today, if it weren't for Alcoholics Anonymous.... " ink about it. AA Beginners Meetings. Dissertationarticles.pdf (application/pdf Object) AA - Expect A Miracle - AA. The Library. More Revealed: A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps aka The Real AA: Behind the Myth of Twelve Step Recovery (See Sharp edition title) by Ken Ragge Read the book Alice Miller says, "[More Revealed] will be a shock to many people because it reveals facts they would rather not know.

But the shock, I have no doubt, will be a healthy one. " -- Alice Miller is famous as author of The Drama of the Gifted Child, For Your Own Good: The Hidden Roots of Cruelty in Childrearing and the Roots of Violence, and Breaking Down the Wall of Silence among other books. Stanton Peele says, "It's great. [T]he best overall analysis I've seen of the roots, nature, consequences, and failures of AA. ...summary of relevant research is excellent and to the point. ... remarkably well written. " -- social psychologist Stanton Peele is author of The Meaning of Addiction and The Diseasing of America.

G. And the public says, >"I hated this book. "It opened my eyes... " -- Bonnie Guerra. Green Papers - counter arguements to the viciously biased anti-AA site The Orange Papers. Stinkin' Thinkin' Community | Home.