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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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Two AA Members Walk Into This Cafe…
An example of how the AA sponsor system inflates egos and encourages sociopathy and just plain bad manners. I was eating dinner in one of my favorite Park Slope cafes the other night when two guys walked in and asked … Continue reading
Tagged 12 steps, AA, sociopath, sponsor
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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
Posted in 12 steps, AA, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, effectiveness, harm reduction, rehab
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
Posted in 12 steps, AA, aa deprogramming, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcoholics anonymous, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, effectiveness, evidence based medicine, harm reduction, Rational Emotive Therapy, REBT, rehab, RET
Tagged 12 step treatment, 12 steps, AA, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, harm reduction, smart recovery, treatment
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Why Substance Use Should Never Be Called A Disease
There are three cases we can look at: 1) The case of recreational substance use where the only negative consequences are the result of the drug laws and not the result of drug use itself. In this case it is … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Alcohol, alcoholics anonymous, disease theory, drug abuse, harm reduction
Tagged 12 steps, AA, addict, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholism, bandura, disease, disease model, disease theory, harm reduction, self-efficacy
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I Am…
It was recently pointed out to me that the statement “I am ___.” is the most powerful statement in the world. If you say “I am depressed”, I am powerless” or “I am an alcoholic” you are just setting up … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 steps, AA, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, empowerment, self-efficacy
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Leaving AA
New blog up for people considering leaving AA http://leavingaa.com/
Posted in 12 steps, AA, alcoholics anonymous, harm reduction
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Free Harm Reduction teleseminar with Kenneth Anderson and Beverly Buncher
Free Harm Reduction teleseminar with Kenneth Anderson and Beverly Buncher – Register now http://beverlybuncher.com/key-5-teleseminar-on-harm-reduction-little-steps-to-big-changes/ Although conventional treatments based on the 12 steps have helped millions of people, the NIAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse) tells us that less than 20 … 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
Posted in 12 steps, AA, addiction, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, drug abuse, harm reduction, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, REBT, RET
Tagged 12 step treatment, 12 steps, AA, addiction, addiction treatment, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, harm reduction, psychotherapy, treatment
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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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Tagged 12 step treatment, 12 steps, AA, aa alternatives, aa deprogramming, addiction, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholics anonymous alternatives, alcoholism, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, harm reduction
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