A year and a half ago the pain in my leg that got so bad I couldn’t walk.
I was finally diagnosed as having stage 4 lymphoma, cancer. As the doctor explained treatment options, I said ‘Let’s cut through the B.S, if I don’t get the treatment, I die right?’.
He was taken aback at my bluntness but said yes. I said that in that case , let’s get started. It is no fun for an addict sitting in a chair for 7 hours at a clip watching drugs being dripped into you. I did what the doctor ordered. I lived
The same thing happened 17 years ago when I was diagnosed with a chronic progressive and fatal disease called addiction to drugs and alcohol. At that time a treatment plan was presented to me. I had become willing to do whatever was needed to save my life. That included the recommendation I go to 12 step meetings, I went. It was hard, I did not know what they were talking about, I just did ‘what the doctor ordered.’ I lived
This video may help if you are ‘anti-12 steps’. I did not see it as propaganda, just some good facts, possibly answering the question, is alcoholics anonymous effective?.
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“Most addicts and alcoholics who stayed clean and sober for years attribute MOST of their success to the 12 Steps of the program.”
Bet you heard that from some true believer in the rooms, but it has no basis in fact. 80% of people who get sober do so without any treatment or program according to The Harvard Mental Health Letter, October 1995.
“Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.”
Senator Patrick Moynahan
When Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs are examined in controlled studies, a new review reports, scientists find no proof that they are superior to any other intervention in reducing alcohol dependence or alcohol-related problems.