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well the first thing is to stop drinking. If you have been drinking a lot for a long time you will want to find a detox unit. Most hospitals will have medical detox. It can be very dangerous to just stop drinking, there are serious withdrawals with alcohol. You will most certainly have a sick stomach, sweats, trembling, often people experience hallucinations, and other serious symptoms. After detoxing, a counselor or doctor can help you to come up with a plan. You will have many options- Inpatient Treatment (you would live in a safe environment at a rehab unit (usually for 28 days) where you will learn tools to help you stay sober. Out Patient treatment is where you would go to meetings a few times a week where you would learn a lot of the same things. Also you might try AA meetings (www.aa.org) where you can go and talk to other alcoholics about your problem. All of these are good options but none are required- pick the things that work for you. I would suggest calling a local hospital for information on the different options where you live. If you have any questions or need me to explain any of those things e-mail me and I will be glad to help. Good Luck!!
The Twelve Steps are actually a hopelessly bad program for recovery:
Cult religion is not a good cure for alcoholism, and A.A. most assuredly is a cult religion.
One of the biggest problems with the Twelve-Step program is the learned helplessness caused by the First Step, where people are taught to confess that they are “powerless over alcohol.” This leads many people to believe that once they have a drink, that a full-blown relapse and total loss of self-control is inevitable and unavoidable. So some people go on suicidally-intense binges, thinking that it is pointless to try to resist temptation.2 –
Step Two is just as bad: it teaches people that they are insane, and that only a Supernatural Being can restore them to sanity — which means that they are helpless, and cannot heal themselves.
Then Step Three teaches a lifestyle of infantile narcissism and passive dependency, where A.A. members turn control of their wills and their lives over to “the care of God as we understood Him”, and then they expect God to take care of them and run their lives for them, and solve all their problems, and wait on them hand and foot, and do all of the hard work for them from then on…
“Let Go And Let God”
is their official motto, their lifestyle, and their approach to problem-solving.
Then Steps Four through Ten induce guilt in the members by forcing members to make lists of all of their sins and flaws, and “defects of character” and “moral shortcomings”, and confess every intimate dirty little secret to another A.A. member who isn’t even ordained clergy, or even sworn to secrecy.
In Step Eleven you are supposed to “channel” God and receive psychic work orders and power.
Then Step Twelve tells you to go recruiting, to draft more alcoholics into this madness.
There is also experimental evidence that the A.A. teachings about powerlessness lead to binge drinking. In a controlled study of A.A.’s effectiveness, court-mandated offenders who had been sent to A.A. for several months were engaging in five times as much binge drinking as the no-treatment control group which got no A.A. “help”.
A.A. boosters and propagandists constantly repeat the Big Lie that A.A. works great, and A.A. with its Twelve Steps is the way that everybody recovers:
One way or another Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries from alcohol or drug abuse. In fact, it is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse. For some people, regular participation in such a mutual self-help group is all that is needed to become and remain sober.
The Recovery Book, Al J. Mooney M.D., Arlene Eisenberg, and Howard Eisenberg, pages 40-41.
All three of those sentences are untrue. The truth is just the opposite of what they are telling us:
Far more people recover without A.A. than with it. The good, unbiased, medical research shows that the vast majority of people who successfully recover from alcoholism — like 80% of them — actually do it without any Twelve-Step program, or even any “recovery group” or “treatment program” of any kind. Contrary to everything you have ever been told by 12-Step promoters and recruiters, doing it alone, quitting without any treatment program, or any “support group”, or any cult religion, is actually the “time-tested, proven” method that really works for most people. And the research also shows that A.A. is actually very harmful: it raises the rates of binge drinking, re-arrests, and death.
So it doesn’t matter how many people believe that not including A.A. in a treatment program will lead to relapse — it still isn’t true.
And then just going to A.A. meetings does not fix alcoholics. It tends to make them relapse and binge drink, and even die.
Also notice all of the propaganda tricks that the authors used there:
First there is the propaganda technique of “everybody’s doing it”: “AA or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries”.
That is a complete falsehood. The vast majority of the successful people recover without A.A. or any “support group”. It’s what “everybody” is doing.
Then they use the propaganda techniques of use of the passive voice and vague suggestions: “It is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse.”
It is widely believed by whom? And what do those unnamed people know? What are their qualifications? Are they doctors? Medical school professors? Or salesmen for a 12-Step treatment center? Why should we care what some unnamed invisible fools allegedly believe, anyway?
The authors also use the propaganda technique of fear-mongering: you will be “on the road to relapse” — you will probably die — unless you practice Bill Wilson’s Twelve Step cult religion.
And then the fluff-headed Pollyanna attitude is outrageous: Just going to the wonderful A.A. meetings is supposedly all that is needed to fix some alcoholics.
But since A.A. has a zero-percent success rate above and beyond the normal rate of spontaneous remission, that cannot possibly be true.
Drug and alcohol addictions are not incurable, progressive diseases that usually end in death.
And they are also not “spiritual diseases.” The truth is that most people spontaneously recover, and simply “mature out of” addictive behavior. Eventually, most of them simply get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and wise up.
The Harvard Mental Health Letter from The Harvard Medical School stated quite plainly:
On their own
There is a high rate of recovery among alcoholics and addicts, treated and untreated. According to one estimate, heroin addicts break the habit in an average of 11 years. Another estimate is that at least 50% of alcoholics eventually free themselves although only 10% are ever treated. One recent study found that 80% of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated. When a group of these self-treated alcoholics was interviewed, 57% said they simply decided that alcohol was bad for them. Twenty-nine percent said health problems, frightening experiences, accidents, or blackouts persuaded them to quit. Others used such phrases as “Things were building up” or “I was sick and tired of it.” Support from a husband or wife was important in sustaining the resolution.
Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction — Part III, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, Volume 12, Number 4, October 1995, page 3.
(See Aug. (Part I), Sept. (Part II), Oct. 1995 (Part III).)
So much for the sayings that
“Everybody needs a support group.”
and
“Nobody can do it alone.”
Most people do.
(Please note that I am not trying to minimize the horrors of alcoholism, or its deadliness. If 51% of all alcoholics recover on their own, that is “most people.” That still leaves a lot of fatalities.)
And note that the Harvard Medical School says that the support of a good spouse is more important than that of a 12-Step group. But A.A. says just the opposite: “Dump your spouse and marry the A.A. group, because A.A. is The Only Way.”
Alcoholism is most assuredly not a disease “which only a spiritual experience can conquer”, like Bill Wilson wrote. There is no such thing as a “spiritual disease”, and alcoholics do not suffer from “spiritual diseases” that are caused by “resentments” (like Bill Wilson wrote in the Big Book, on page 64).
The “spiritual disease” of alcoholism resembles the “spiritual disease” of “candyism”, which is the illness that children get from eating too much ice cream and candy.
The Alcoholics Anonymous definition of alcoholism is so goofy that A.A.-member therapists won’t even agree with this statement:
“Alcoholism is caused by drinking alcohol.”
The A.A. founder Bill Wilson declared that alcoholism is a “spiritual disease” that is caused by
sins,
moral shortcomings,
wrongs,
defects of character,
resentments,
instincts run wild,
character defects, representing instincts gone astray,
self,
self-will run riot,
desires that have far exceeded their intended purpose,
The Seven Deadly Sins
a willful and irresponsible ego,
failure to practice religious precepts properly,
failure to practice Step Five properly,
selfishness,
self-seeking,
self-centeredness,
more selfishness
defective relations,
nagging wives,
nagging wives again, “throwing her husband into a fit of anger”
serious character flaws,
faith that isn’t accompanied by “self-sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action”,
personal secrets that we have not confessed,
inherited genes or inherited sins, and
conditions that we couldn’t correct to our entire satisfaction,
another unconfessed personal secret…
Notice that drinking alcohol is not on that list. Bill Wilson considered everything but drinking alcohol to be the real cause of alcoholism:
“Our liquor was but a symptom.” (The Big Book, William G. Wilson, page 64.)
“After all, our problems were of our own making. Bottles were only a symbol.” (The Big Book, William G. Wilson, page 103.)
Alcoholics Anonymous actually teaches that alcoholics are “born that way”, and have “character defects” like “alcoholic thinking” and “reacting wrong” that can be traced back to early childhood, even to a time before the alcoholic ever had his or her first drink:
Those who do not
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well the first thing is to stop drinking. If you have been drinking a lot for a long time you will want to find a detox unit. Most hospitals will have medical detox. It can be very dangerous to just stop drinking, there are serious withdrawals with alcohol. You will most certainly have a sick stomach, sweats, trembling, often people experience hallucinations, and other serious symptoms. After detoxing, a counselor or doctor can help you to come up with a plan. You will have many options- Inpatient Treatment (you would live in a safe environment at a rehab unit (usually for 28 days) where you will learn tools to help you stay sober. Out Patient treatment is where you would go to meetings a few times a week where you would learn a lot of the same things. Also you might try AA meetings (www.aa.org) where you can go and talk to other alcoholics about your problem. All of these are good options but none are required- pick the things that work for you. I would suggest calling a local hospital for information on the different options where you live. If you have any questions or need me to explain any of those things e-mail me and I will be glad to help. Good Luck!!
alcohol addiction
The Twelve Steps are actually a hopelessly bad program for recovery:
Cult religion is not a good cure for alcoholism, and A.A. most assuredly is a cult religion.
One of the biggest problems with the Twelve-Step program is the learned helplessness caused by the First Step, where people are taught to confess that they are “powerless over alcohol.” This leads many people to believe that once they have a drink, that a full-blown relapse and total loss of self-control is inevitable and unavoidable. So some people go on suicidally-intense binges, thinking that it is pointless to try to resist temptation.2 –
Step Two is just as bad: it teaches people that they are insane, and that only a Supernatural Being can restore them to sanity — which means that they are helpless, and cannot heal themselves.
Then Step Three teaches a lifestyle of infantile narcissism and passive dependency, where A.A. members turn control of their wills and their lives over to “the care of God as we understood Him”, and then they expect God to take care of them and run their lives for them, and solve all their problems, and wait on them hand and foot, and do all of the hard work for them from then on…
“Let Go And Let God”
is their official motto, their lifestyle, and their approach to problem-solving.
Then Steps Four through Ten induce guilt in the members by forcing members to make lists of all of their sins and flaws, and “defects of character” and “moral shortcomings”, and confess every intimate dirty little secret to another A.A. member who isn’t even ordained clergy, or even sworn to secrecy.
In Step Eleven you are supposed to “channel” God and receive psychic work orders and power.
Then Step Twelve tells you to go recruiting, to draft more alcoholics into this madness.
There is also experimental evidence that the A.A. teachings about powerlessness lead to binge drinking. In a controlled study of A.A.’s effectiveness, court-mandated offenders who had been sent to A.A. for several months were engaging in five times as much binge drinking as the no-treatment control group which got no A.A. “help”.
A.A. boosters and propagandists constantly repeat the Big Lie that A.A. works great, and A.A. with its Twelve Steps is the way that everybody recovers:
One way or another Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries from alcohol or drug abuse. In fact, it is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse. For some people, regular participation in such a mutual self-help group is all that is needed to become and remain sober.
The Recovery Book, Al J. Mooney M.D., Arlene Eisenberg, and Howard Eisenberg, pages 40-41.
All three of those sentences are untrue. The truth is just the opposite of what they are telling us:
Far more people recover without A.A. than with it. The good, unbiased, medical research shows that the vast majority of people who successfully recover from alcoholism — like 80% of them — actually do it without any Twelve-Step program, or even any “recovery group” or “treatment program” of any kind. Contrary to everything you have ever been told by 12-Step promoters and recruiters, doing it alone, quitting without any treatment program, or any “support group”, or any cult religion, is actually the “time-tested, proven” method that really works for most people. And the research also shows that A.A. is actually very harmful: it raises the rates of binge drinking, re-arrests, and death.
So it doesn’t matter how many people believe that not including A.A. in a treatment program will lead to relapse — it still isn’t true.
And then just going to A.A. meetings does not fix alcoholics. It tends to make them relapse and binge drink, and even die.
Also notice all of the propaganda tricks that the authors used there:
First there is the propaganda technique of “everybody’s doing it”: “AA or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries”.
That is a complete falsehood. The vast majority of the successful people recover without A.A. or any “support group”. It’s what “everybody” is doing.
Then they use the propaganda techniques of use of the passive voice and vague suggestions: “It is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse.”
It is widely believed by whom? And what do those unnamed people know? What are their qualifications? Are they doctors? Medical school professors? Or salesmen for a 12-Step treatment center? Why should we care what some unnamed invisible fools allegedly believe, anyway?
The authors also use the propaganda technique of fear-mongering: you will be “on the road to relapse” — you will probably die — unless you practice Bill Wilson’s Twelve Step cult religion.
And then the fluff-headed Pollyanna attitude is outrageous: Just going to the wonderful A.A. meetings is supposedly all that is needed to fix some alcoholics.
But since A.A. has a zero-percent success rate above and beyond the normal rate of spontaneous remission, that cannot possibly be true.
Drug and alcohol addictions are not incurable, progressive diseases that usually end in death.
And they are also not “spiritual diseases.” The truth is that most people spontaneously recover, and simply “mature out of” addictive behavior. Eventually, most of them simply get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and wise up.
The Harvard Mental Health Letter from The Harvard Medical School stated quite plainly:
On their own
There is a high rate of recovery among alcoholics and addicts, treated and untreated. According to one estimate, heroin addicts break the habit in an average of 11 years. Another estimate is that at least 50% of alcoholics eventually free themselves although only 10% are ever treated. One recent study found that 80% of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated. When a group of these self-treated alcoholics was interviewed, 57% said they simply decided that alcohol was bad for them. Twenty-nine percent said health problems, frightening experiences, accidents, or blackouts persuaded them to quit. Others used such phrases as “Things were building up” or “I was sick and tired of it.” Support from a husband or wife was important in sustaining the resolution.
Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction — Part III, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, Volume 12, Number 4, October 1995, page 3.
(See Aug. (Part I), Sept. (Part II), Oct. 1995 (Part III).)
So much for the sayings that
“Everybody needs a support group.”
and
“Nobody can do it alone.”
Most people do.
(Please note that I am not trying to minimize the horrors of alcoholism, or its deadliness. If 51% of all alcoholics recover on their own, that is “most people.” That still leaves a lot of fatalities.)
And note that the Harvard Medical School says that the support of a good spouse is more important than that of a 12-Step group. But A.A. says just the opposite: “Dump your spouse and marry the A.A. group, because A.A. is The Only Way.”
Alcoholism is most assuredly not a disease “which only a spiritual experience can conquer”, like Bill Wilson wrote. There is no such thing as a “spiritual disease”, and alcoholics do not suffer from “spiritual diseases” that are caused by “resentments” (like Bill Wilson wrote in the Big Book, on page 64).
The “spiritual disease” of alcoholism resembles the “spiritual disease” of “candyism”, which is the illness that children get from eating too much ice cream and candy.
The Alcoholics Anonymous definition of alcoholism is so goofy that A.A.-member therapists won’t even agree with this statement:
“Alcoholism is caused by drinking alcohol.”
The A.A. founder Bill Wilson declared that alcoholism is a “spiritual disease” that is caused by
sins,
moral shortcomings,
wrongs,
defects of character,
resentments,
instincts run wild,
character defects, representing instincts gone astray,
self,
self-will run riot,
desires that have far exceeded their intended purpose,
The Seven Deadly Sins
a willful and irresponsible ego,
failure to practice religious precepts properly,
failure to practice Step Five properly,
selfishness,
self-seeking,
self-centeredness,
more selfishness
defective relations,
nagging wives,
nagging wives again, “throwing her husband into a fit of anger”
serious character flaws,
faith that isn’t accompanied by “self-sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action”,
personal secrets that we have not confessed,
inherited genes or inherited sins, and
conditions that we couldn’t correct to our entire satisfaction,
another unconfessed personal secret…
Notice that drinking alcohol is not on that list. Bill Wilson considered everything but drinking alcohol to be the real cause of alcoholism:
“Our liquor was but a symptom.” (The Big Book, William G. Wilson, page 64.)
“After all, our problems were of our own making. Bottles were only a symbol.” (The Big Book, William G. Wilson, page 103.)
Alcoholics Anonymous actually teaches that alcoholics are “born that way”, and have “character defects” like “alcoholic thinking” and “reacting wrong” that can be traced back to early childhood, even to a time before the alcoholic ever had his or her first drink:
Those who do not