Why 12 step doesn’t work?
July 1st, 2008
I was looking at addiction blog sites and ran across a banner ad that read “Why 12 step doesn’t work”. I was quite engrossed as to my knowledge millions of people have gotte clean and sober through AA and NA so I click on the link and was directed to Clearhaven Treatment Center in Canada.
Their assertion was that the cognitive/behavioral program that they used was far superior to to a 12 step approach and made a lot of assertions about 12 step (”Labels you an addict for life, beaten by addictions, no self control, needing lifetime membership “, “Christian approach dominant”
and “Lifetime attendance required”) that really weren’t true.
As someone who got clean and sober through a cognitive treatment approach and uses that modality with my own clients, I do understand the value of it. But to try to drum up business by turning people against a program that has been so much help to so many is appalling to me.
I am curious if there are other treatment providers out there that feel it is necessary to denegrate one type of treatment to advance their own view of what modality works best.
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