“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, and we have been on the wrong path ever since. Today, almost every treatment center, physician, and court system in the country uses this model. Yet it has one of the worst success rates in all of medicine: between 5 and 10 percent, hardly better than no treatment at all. Most of the expensive, famous rehab centers that base their treatment on the Twelve Steps likewise have offered no evidence for their effectiveness. Most of them don’t even study their own outcomes.” AddictionRecoverySobrietyAddiction And RecoveryGamblers AnonymousGam AnonAlcoholics Anonymous12 Step ProgramAaAl Anon Book:The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“In the seventy-six years since AA was created, 12-step programs have expanded to include over three hundred different organizations, focusing on such diverse issues as smoking, shoplifting, social phobia, debt, recovery from incest, even vulgarity. All told, more than five million people recite the Serenity Prayer at meetings across the United States every year.” AddictionRecoverySobrietyAddiction And RecoveryGamblers AnonymousGam AnonAlcoholics Anonymous12 Step ProgramAaAl Anon Book:The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry