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Title: Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug & Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment by James DeSena, Jeffrey A. Schaler, Joseph Gerstein ISBN: 1-884365-29-9 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There Are Many Roads To A Sober, Happy Life!
Comment: I'm grateful to have found Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits when I did. After enduring a traditional 12-step rehab and subsequent months of AA meetings, I knew this "treatment" was not the road to recovery for me. This book opened my eyes to many resources and options for overcoming my addiction before I became immersed in what for me was ineffective and obtuse 12-step theology.
Critics of Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits often attack the author's character, not his message. It's clear to this former addict that the author of this book would like the still suffering substance abuser to know of all his or her recovery options; not just the AA way. It's sad that the addiction treatment community, despite its appallingly dismal sobriety success rate, (less than 5 per cent) in effect withholds alternatives to AA and 12-step treatment. It's also clear that there are other critics who would advise addicts who don't find AA helpful to simply not go. What these uninformed critics don't understand or refuse to understand is that AA and 12-step attendance is choicelessly thrust upon unwitting addicts when they submit to addiction treatment as currently practiced in the United States. Telling people who find AA unhelpful to simply not attend, and then, not offering viable alternatives to it, is ignorant counsel and meaningless at best.
If you're unduly struggling, unhappy or not where you'd like to be in AA, give Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits a read. You'll know what your options are and empower yourself to choose the sobriety path that makes sense and is right for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very cool! Read this Book!
Comment: What a cool book! I was tired, yes, sick and tired of being told I was suffering from an incurable disease: Addiction/Alcoholism. A disease that could only be held in check "one day at a time" by attending AA meetings and following the 12-steps to "serenity." I've since learned that AA, and all it encompasses is no more than the thoughts, ideas and teachings of its founder(s)(Bill Wilson and Bob Smith).
AA and the 12-steps are not a treatment...they are a religious/spiritual conversion process, which is something I found totally inapropriate for myself when I decided booze and other drugs had to be purged from my life.
So, if you just wanna quit, enjoy life and live recovery-free, READ Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits. You have nothing to loose but your own self-defeating addiction(s).
Rating: 1
Summary: worthless
Comment: this book is just another in a long string of "AA Sucks" books. interesting that AA is non-profit, and yet this book is for profit. i wonder if in 10 or 15 years, the people who failed to stay sober with this book will want there money back? even though AA never makes the claim that it has the only solution, many i think are confused by the fact that AA offers no "i will fix you" solution. to compare with the AA book, it reapeatedly claims it is not the only solution on the block. this book goes on and on about how other programs suck. why not just say "hey this way is good too"? why indeed? why not fill these expensive pages with information on how better to make use and understanding of this new way of recovery? i dont want to read a bunch of critisizm! if this way works, then let it stand on its on merit! if it works, why does it need to put down things that work for others? because its all a rub! you buy it, it says, those guys suck, this is all you need. sounds good because the other way is hard, so you go for it. by the time you are cleaning up form the relapse, too late... you bought the book! money gone! AA has been around so long, because it works for some and and those that it works for hang around. i heartily encourage those not interested to investigate real alternatives, not some guy who will tell you what sounds good with your money in his pocket. many books with these same ideas have been published over the years, but strangly, noone is around to testify to the long term effectivness of these so called methods and ideas. just more books we can purchase that tell us the same stuff - AA sucks. and if you think aa sucks? DONT GO.
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Title: Rational Recovery : The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey ISBN: 0671528580 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Truth About Addiction and Recovery by Stanton Peele ISBN: 0671755307 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Addiction Is a Choice by Phd, Jeffrey Schaler, Jeffrey A. Schaler ISBN: 081269404X Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: When AA Doesn't Work For You : Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol by Albert Ellis ISBN: 0942637534 Publisher: Barricade Books Pub. Date: 25 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stay Sober and Straight : How to Prevent Addiction Relapse with the Rational Self-Help Treatment Method by Maxie C. Maultsby Jr. ISBN: 0932838006 Publisher: Rational Self-Help Books Pub. Date: 19 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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