Harm Reduction Radio – HAMS- SAFE RECOVERY
- 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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Tag Archives: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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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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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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
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Addiction Treatments That Work On Internet Radio
Addiction Treatments That Work – Internet Radio Click on the link to join Kenneth Anderson as he interviews leading experts in the addictions filed on evidence based treatment modalities such as harm reduction, cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy. Thursday nights … Continue reading
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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The ABCs of Harm Reduction: How Rational Emotive Therapy Can Be Applied To Harm Reduction
There is an organization called SMART Recovery which has applied the principles of RET (Rational Emotive Therapy, aka CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) with a good deal of success to quitting drinking. It strikes me that these same principles can … Continue reading
Posted in ABC model, ABCs, Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, hams harm reduction network, harm reduction, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, REBT, RET
Tagged Alcohol, alcohol harm reduction, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, harm reduction, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, REBT, RET
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