An expos of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-Step programs, and the Rehab industry--and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.
This book offers new and actionable information for addicts, their families, and medical providers, and lays out better ways to understand addiction for those seeking a more effective and compassionate approach to this treatable problem..
The Sober Truth builds a powerful response to the monopoly of the 12-Step program and explodes the myth that these Programs offer an acceptable or universal solution to the deeply personal problem of addiction.
These stories vividly reveal the experience of walking the steps and attending some of the nation\'s most famous rehabilitation centers.
Dodes\'s thirty-five years of clinical practice, as well as firsthand accounts submitted by addicts through an open invitation on the Psychology Today website.
The Sober Truth includes true stories from Dr.
Dodes explores the entire story of AA\'s rise, from its origins in early fundamentalist religious and mystical beliefs to its present-day place of privilege in politics and media.
Dr.
It is also a book about Science and how and why AA and Rehab became so popular, despite the discouraging data.
But The Sober Truth is more than a book about addiction.
He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program\'s overall success.
Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases.
Dr.
Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed Science that the 12-Step Industry has used to support its programs.
In The Sober Truth , acclaimed addiction specialist Dr.
Despite this, doctors, employers, and judges regularly refer addicted people to treatment Programs and Rehab facilities based on the 12-Step model.
Yet the evidence shows that AA has only a 5-10 percent success rate--hardly better than no treatment at all.
AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery.
An expos of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-Step programs, and the Rehab industry--and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America
