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Having an addict who recovered in my family I can safely say that there is only one way you recover an addict contrary to what all the sycophants will tell you. Cold turkey. That's the only way to have it work.
AA and things like it take a bunch of addicts and put them together. The absolute last thing they need. Addicts are weak humans. They empower their addiction by other weak humans making their addiction seem okay. AA meetings are full of rapists and user type people who understand this truth and abuse it. The last place any addict belongs is a place with other addicts. It's the same reason rehab centers full of addicts don't work. You have to cut out the other sick people from that weak persons life.
This post demonstrates so much ignorance on addiction and recovery, it's hard to know where to start. When you put a group of people together, trying to be in recovery in regards to a certain issue, like addiction, what you often find is that they gather strength from each other. The support group model is well established and well researched as a successful modality for recovery and for assistance with a wide variety of issues. However, it IS important for those in a recovery group to be aiming towards recovery. If they are a group of folks who want to remain active addicts, then of course, the group will have the opposite effect of what is intended. Groups that I run for people who have various issues, MUST want to be in recovery in order to be in the group. Without that criteria, an individual could easily potentially poison the rest of the group.