> My experience was that the AA “methods” are just a vehicle for the true healing, which comes from the people
I can believe that, and I'll happily grant that's an extremely valuable spect of it, given how much social isolation is an exacerbating factor in addiction and relapse.
> Respectfully, I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. Spend some time in a few AA meetings, maybe a meeting in a prison, and reconsider your hypothesis.
That's not respectful at all, regardless of the reality of my knowledge of the topic. I've been very close with people who went to AA, including one who lost his life after several years in it. I've been close with others with other substance addictions, including at least one who ended up in prison. Though I wasn't understanding of it at the time, in retrospect I can recognise what was powering their addictions. These techniques would have helped those people the way they helped me. It's been demonstrated by at least one prominent researcher, Dr Gabor Mate - https://drgabormate.com/topic/addiction/
I can believe that, and I'll happily grant that's an extremely valuable spect of it, given how much social isolation is an exacerbating factor in addiction and relapse.
> Respectfully, I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. Spend some time in a few AA meetings, maybe a meeting in a prison, and reconsider your hypothesis.
That's not respectful at all, regardless of the reality of my knowledge of the topic. I've been very close with people who went to AA, including one who lost his life after several years in it. I've been close with others with other substance addictions, including at least one who ended up in prison. Though I wasn't understanding of it at the time, in retrospect I can recognise what was powering their addictions. These techniques would have helped those people the way they helped me. It's been demonstrated by at least one prominent researcher, Dr Gabor Mate - https://drgabormate.com/topic/addiction/