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Question by Pattim: Alcoholics Anonymous-is recovery possible?
Does AA teach that meetings are essential forever? Does it teach that children of alcoholics are 100% likely to be alcoholics? Is there a gene for alcoholism? Are there facts to support that this is a “disease”?
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Answer by wilderwriter
You should be able to check the Internet for information you’re seeking. I understand, though, that solid statistical studies have shown that AA really isn’t much help for alcoholism recovery, particularly if it is the only “treatment” tried. Not that it isn’t possible to recover from alcoholism, but that “self paced” programs and simple willpower may very well work as well or better than AA.
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I used to think I needed to drink it all. Now I don’t. Diseases make money. AA works for some but it’s depressing. God helps. Blessed Be
Yes, AA teaches meetings are for life, that we are powerless and have a spiritual disease in which only their god can give just a daily reprieve and recovery is not possible because you have to attend meetings for life.
However that is just a myth. no one is powerless recovery lies withoin the individual not the god of AA.
BB
Question Alcoholics Anonymous-is recovery possible?
YES. It AA proposes that power over alcohol can be achieved through a spiritual awakening. It does not propose that alcoholics remain powerless as many suppose. It suggests that alcoholics can find “new power” which they did not have perviously. And exactly where and how the co-founders found this this new power is clearly delineated in their book, “Alcoholics Anonymous”.
“We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?
Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. ” (45:1)
Does AA teach that meetings are essential forever?
NO. There were no meetings when AA was founded and it’s method worked just fine without them. It still does. Recovered alcoholic like to go to meetings however, to find new people to teach them how they recovered. Other than that reason,modern-day AA meetings are non-essential to recovery and AA does not say that they are mandatory or even essential.
Does it teach that children of alcoholics are 100% likely to be alcoholics?
NO. No where in AA’s literature can this idea be found. The discipline of Genetics is beyond AA’s scope and they would have no opinion it it.
Is there a gene for alcoholism?
MAYBE. No one Knows and AA wouldn’t have an opinion in it anyway. Research is ongoing and many researchers feel they are close to positively identifying one.
Are there facts to support that this is a “disease”?
NO. It’s totally subjective. The medical profession says yes. But only after they figured out how to make money off alcoholics. Prior to that they ignored alcoholics. They still have not developed a treatment or cure for alcoholism – only a way to derive billions of dollars despite their atrocious success rates.
The co-founders of AA said nothing on this subject. The Big Book, “Alcoholics Anonymous make no mention of alcoholism as a disease either. Bill W, the first co-founder said “No” to this question and AA Publishing says yes in one of their pamphlets. No one can be proven right or wrong about whichever answer they chose to this question.
Hope that helps.
Peace,
Danny S
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com
Yes, AA teaches one that meetings are essential forever. They also feel that children of alcholholics are either doomed to be an alcholic and should go to AA, or should go to Al-Anon because they are “co-dependent”.
I am not sure if there is gene for alcoholism, and not sure about the facts to support it is a disease.
However, AA will teach one that they are “powerless” over alcohol, that if they drink while they are in the program (or cult) then that means they didn’t work the steps hard enough. If they feel like they are going to drink, they are told to go to more meetings. They have to put their faith in a “Higher Power” which can be a doorknob, a toilet, God, or even a coffee pot which will make them stop drinking.
AA totally ignores the fact that God gave human being special brains, and doesn’t have time to sit around and make sure that alcoholics won’t drink.
It is a destructive cult, and I wish more people realized that faster than I did.