The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
✍ Scribed by Dodes, Lance; Dodes, Zachary
- Book ID
- 108032524
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 389 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780807033166
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, twelve-step programs, and the rehab industry--and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America
AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the evidence shows that AA has only a 5-10 percent success rate--hardly better than no treatment at all. Despite this, doctors, employers and judges regularly refer addicted people to treatment programs and rehab facilities based on the 12-step model.
In The Sober Truth, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments and biases. He also pores through the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available, and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program's overall success.
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