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All Addiction Twelve Step Program Recovery Science: For the Alcoholic, Drug Addict, Codependent, Overeater, Whatever
Addiction is not some random occurrence. It’s predictable. So, if you’re addicted you followed the formula. And if there is one thing the chemist tells us, it’s a formula is reversable. That is if nothing is left out of the equation.This book is neither academic nor scientific. It is, however, based on the hard-learned experience of being an addict. Becoming an addict takes a lot of effort. It costs us much in time, treasure, and torture. Yet, we continue to pursue the desired effect regardless of the consequences. Of course, this means we remain restless, irritable, and discontent unless we can again feel the ease and comfort that once came from alcohol, drugs, food, and behaviors. Thus, the hallmark of addiction is not the use, but the effects of the use. If the behavior or consumption creates a myriad of problems or otherwise makes your life unmanageable than you may wonder, “Why is this happening to me?”
Not all treatment programs work for everyone. And while most incorporate many of the same components, there is no universal right way, only way, or best way. However, for the purpose of this book we’ll concentrate on two distinctly different “sciences”. Those being the bio-psychological aspects of addiction, and the other being the science of the Twelve Steps.
Please don’t scoff at the claim that the Twelve Steps are scientifically based. For the term “science” has morphed over the years to support all sorts of ideologies. Unlike many other sciences, here today and gone tomorrow, AA’s Steps has an eighty-year track record. All we ask, is that the reader remember Herbert Spenser’s caution of avoiding “contempt prior to investigation.”
In the Big Book it says the body of the alcoholic is as abnormal as the mind. It does not suffice to say we are maladjusted to life, outright mental defects, and in full flight from reality. It goes on to say, that bottles (or whatever) are but a symptom. That we must get down to the causes and conditions. And is that not what science is all about?
Not all treatment programs work for everyone. And while most incorporate many of the same components, there is no universal right way, only way, or best way. However, for the purpose of this book we’ll concentrate on two distinctly different “sciences”. Those being the bio-psychological aspects of addiction, and the other being the science of the Twelve Steps.
Please don’t scoff at the claim that the Twelve Steps are scientifically based. For the term “science” has morphed over the years to support all sorts of ideologies. Unlike many other sciences, here today and gone tomorrow, AA’s Steps has an eighty-year track record. All we ask, is that the reader remember Herbert Spenser’s caution of avoiding “contempt prior to investigation.”
In the Big Book it says the body of the alcoholic is as abnormal as the mind. It does not suffice to say we are maladjusted to life, outright mental defects, and in full flight from reality. It goes on to say, that bottles (or whatever) are but a symptom. That we must get down to the causes and conditions. And is that not what science is all about?
80 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 27, 2024
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