EPTOn April 15 2014 01:59 9heart wrote:
You are ignorant. Please educate yourself about addiction and the brain, and come back when you have something interesting or relevant to share. I suggest starting with:
http://www.amazon.com/Cracked-Life-Edge-Rehab-Clinic/dp/0060096551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397494682&sr=8-1&keywords=cracked dr drew
You are ignorant. Please educate yourself about addiction and the brain, and come back when you have something interesting or relevant to share. I suggest starting with:
http://www.amazon.com/Cracked-Life-Edge-Rehab-Clinic/dp/0060096551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397494682&sr=8-1&keywords=cracked dr drew
dr. drew lol
i would recommend books by people like dr. abraham twerski, hasidic rabbi and psychologist who founded gateway rehab near pittsburgh and has spent around 50 years studying and treating addiction. not a media whore who has a terrible record of exploiting his celebrity patients and an even worse record at keeping them clean and sober.
but even then long-term sobriety using the disease theory of addiction and the 12-step method that is so popular has a success rate (long-term sobriety success) of like 1-2%... almost anywhere else such failure would cause almost everything that was believed to be thrown out and start fresh. but the disease theory of addiction does have biological scientific validity and most people in the rehab/recovery community cannot even conceive of trying anything else other than the 12-step method, it's the best we have no matter how much it actually sucks. alternative methods to the 12 steps like rational recovery etc. don't do much better at achieving long-term sobriety. substance abuse and addiction is very much a gordian knot and no alexander has yet appeared to cut it.
