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Reminder that while abstinence-only programs dominate American addiction treatments they don’t work for everyone and other countries have explored different treatments that seem to work better while the American model is built around profits and based in religious dogma
If AA works for you that’s great but it’s not the only option and there is no hard proof to back up their effectiveness claims.
This article is from 2015 but still relevant as far as I know. And this is personal to me because I ended up in prison over alcohol and AA never worked for me. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/
If you think our healthcare system is shit, the addiction industry in America puts it to shame because it’s not even backed up by any hard science. Just Christian woo with a ridiculous price tag
Did you know there are actually drugs that you can take that show remarkable effectiveness at curbing cravings for alcohol and other drugs but they’re almost unknown in this country and can only be obtained by convincing a doctor to give them to you off-label? Read that story
I still drink but I do it responsibly now. And according to AA that is impossible for an alcoholic to do. I’m just a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. It is an ingrained moral failing that nothing can be done about short of total abstinence. It’s a lie
All it took for me was 11 years drying out at the taxpayer’s expense and an adjustment of habits. But it didn’t have to take 11 years. Profits were why it did and somebody died in the process. And it makes me angry
