Reply #69: sure there do

[maxanne]

go invent one!

Rational Recovery hasn't really caught on. Moderaton Management - well look what happened there - the founder swore alcoholics could learn to drink in moderation. Now she sits in prison for driving up the wrong side of the highway, drunk, and killing a couple of people. That was a flaming success.

People criticize AA - well good, give us an alternative. I, for one, am sick to death of court ordered tourists coming to AA meetings, then going to the bar and discussing who was at the meeting and what they had to say. AA is a support group for alcoholics. We aren't treatment professionals. Take the fucking tourists out.

The trouble is, AA has been more successful than any other treatment modality. Society is so hung up about the strength/weakness view of alcoholism that no one wants to spend any money on education or treatment of addiction. My state ranks 47th in the nation for spending on treatment - and we have state liquor stores. Ironic, isn't it?

So, all you revilers of AA - go work on something else, and stop blaming the one program that has a tangible success rate.