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““AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps directly from the Oxford Group, a fundamentalist religious organization founded in the early twentieth century.””

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“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

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“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best seller), spells…

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“I have met and listened to a very large number of people who have “failed” at AA and some who continue to swear by…

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“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction. If moral…

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“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy,…

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“Every year, our state and federal governments spend over $15 billion on substance-abuse treatment for addicts, the vast majority of which are based on…

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“People suffering with addictions as a rule tend to be well aware of the many “wrongs” they have committed. Awareness of this fact doesn’t…

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“Going to rehab” is likewise a common refrain in music and film, where it is almost always uncritically presented as the one true hope…

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“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is no accident:…

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“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people who enter…

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“There is nothing inherently wrong with apologizing to those who have been harmed, directly or indirectly, by the consequences of addiction. The problem is…

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“He also found himself increasingly resentful of the “tally system” that AA uses to measure sobriety: every time he “slipped” and had a drink,…

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“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

Lance Dodes

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“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best seller), spells…

Lance Dodes

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“I have met and listened to a very large number of people who have “failed” at AA and some who continue to swear by…

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“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction. If moral…

Lance Dodes

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“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy,…

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“Every year, our state and federal governments spend over $15 billion on substance-abuse treatment for addicts, the vast majority of which are based on…

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“People suffering with addictions as a rule tend to be well aware of the many “wrongs” they have committed. Awareness of this fact doesn’t…

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“Going to rehab” is likewise a common refrain in music and film, where it is almost always uncritically presented as the one true hope…

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“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is no accident:…

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“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people who enter…

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“There is nothing inherently wrong with apologizing to those who have been harmed, directly or indirectly, by the consequences of addiction. The problem is…

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“He also found himself increasingly resentful of the “tally system” that AA uses to measure sobriety: every time he “slipped” and had a drink,…

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