> In practice, given a person who wants to get clean, what works better than a 12-step program?
For some people, it's fixing whatever drove them to a situation where shooting heroin into their arm is a better decision then not shooting heroin their your arm.
For other people, it's switching a dependency on a street drug to a dependency on a prescription drug.
Telling people that they have zero agency in their lives, and that only Jesus can magically cure them - definitely works for some people, but not for everyone.
AA has a success rate of, depending on which study you cite, between 5% and 25%, over doing nothing.
For some people, it's fixing whatever drove them to a situation where shooting heroin into their arm is a better decision then not shooting heroin their your arm.
For other people, it's switching a dependency on a street drug to a dependency on a prescription drug.
Telling people that they have zero agency in their lives, and that only Jesus can magically cure them - definitely works for some people, but not for everyone.
AA has a success rate of, depending on which study you cite, between 5% and 25%, over doing nothing.