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- The Lies in the AA Big Book disected, discussed, debated.
- What happens when you're in AA, leave and now you have no friends?
- Steven Slate author of Freedom Model
- The 13th Step- A film exposing the dark side of Alcoholics Anonymous
- AA 's entry into Hollywood, The Lost Weekend, The Days of Wine and Roses
- The stupid things AA sponsors say- are there any "good " sponsors?
- More about Alcoholism, Chapter 3 of the Big Book, tearing it up again
- Working with Others tearing up just one more chapter of The Big Book
- Into Action What kind of lies are in the Big Book of AA
- Tearing up the AA Big Book just one more time - where are the lies
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So-Called Moderate Drinking Study Actually Studies Severely Heavy Drinking
A recent article in Neuroscience titled “Moderate drinking? Alcohol consumption significantly decreases neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus” purports to study moderate drinking and prove that even moderate drinking may have a severely negative impact on the formation of brain cells. … Continue reading
Project MATCH Gets an F in Psych 101
If I made a wiener out of fifty percent pork and fifty percent beef and labeled it and sold it to you as a 100% all beef kosher hot dog would I be committing fraud? Of course I would! But … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 step treatment, 12 steps, AA, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholism, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, harm reduction, Project MATCH, therapy, treatment
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The Stages of Change Model Vs. the “Hitting Bottom” Model
When Prochaska et al did their extensive research on the change process they did not find evidence that a dramatic and traumatic event such as AA’s notion of “hitting bottom” caused people to change their behaviors. What they found instead … Continue reading
Project MATCH Proves That Harm Reduction Works And 12 Step Programs Don’t
It is rather amazing that the US government spent 35 million dollars on a project as flawed and fraudulent as project MATCH. Project MATCH purported to compare 12 Step Treatment with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), … Continue reading
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Addiction Treatment Contrasted with Mental Health Treatment
As Duncan, Miller and Sparks (2004) aptly point out, the vast majority of popular mental health treatments ranging from CBT and DBT to Psychodynamic approaches are all effective and factors such as therapeutic alliance and client factors can have a … Continue reading
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12 Step Programs Are The Opposite Of CBT
Not long ago there was a blog post in Psychology Today titled “Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work Because it’s a Form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?” (Lazarus, 2010). This is an odd title because it assumes that AA is more effective than … Continue reading
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Addiction: Bad habit or Incurable Brain Disease?
It is very popular these days to call all recreational drug use and all recreational alcohol intoxication “substance abuse”. And the NIAAA and NIDA are very, very busy trying to convince the US that all substance abuse is “addiction” and … Continue reading
Is AA Wrong For You?
Although many people find that 12 step groups such as AA or NA are helpful for their drug or alcohol problems, a growing body of evidence suggests that just as many people may be harmed by 12 step programs as … Continue reading
Posted in 12 steps, AA, addiction, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, drug abuse, effectiveness, hams harm reduction network, harm reduction
Tagged 12 step treatment, 12 steps, AA, aa alternatives, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholism, choice, hams, hams harm reduction network, harm reduction, smart recovery
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Accountability for Alcoholism Treatment
When a doctor prescribes a medication to treat an illness, you know that medication has been tested and retested for effectiveness and side effects before it can ever get FDA approval. Even with these safeguards in place sometimes unsafe medications … Continue reading
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Let’s Put An End To Discrimination Based On Treatment Goal
The following is a true story: A short time ago I was under a tremendous amount of situational stress involving leaving an old job and starting a new venture. Not only was I leaving an old job behind, this new … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 step treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholism treament, chemical dependency treatment, harm reduction, harm reduction psychotherapy, mental health, moderate drinking, moderation, psychotherapy, therapy, treatment
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