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AA: America’s Gift to the World

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April 7, 2015

Thank you America! For once a balanced view of AA’s legacy to worldwide recovery from Alcoholism. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmrv0
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an obsessive compulsive disorder, mindfulness, obsessive thinking about drinking, OCD, thought action fusion, thoughts about drinking

Appraising Alcohol-Related Thoughts

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April 7, 2015

In this first in a series of blogs addressing the similarities between addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). This blog looks at the nature of obsessive thoughts about alcohol. It brings to focus the great sense in your sponsor suggesting the reason you may be having thoughts about alcohol, especially in…
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Impulsivity is an Independent Predictor of 15-Year Mortality Risk among Individuals Seeking Help for Alcohol-Related Problems

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April 4, 2015

In yesterday’s blog we looked at how AA membership and the 12 step program of recovery helped reduce impulsivity in recovering alcoholics. We mentioned also that impulsivity was present as a pathomechanism of alcoholism from vulnerability in “at risk” children from families, were there was a history of alcoholism, right…
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Alcoholics Anonymous and Reduced Impulsivity: A Novel Mechanism of Change

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April 3, 2015

Impulsivity or lack of behaviour inhibition, especially when distressed, is one psychological mechanisms which is implicated in all addictive behaviour from substance addiction to behaviour addiction. It is, in my view, linked to the impaired emotion processing as I have elucidated upon in various blogs on this site. This impulsivity…
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Participation in Treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous

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April 2, 2015

So keep taking the medicine… “A 16-Year Follow-Up of Initially Untreated Individuals Abstract This study focused on the duration of participation in professional treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) for previously untreated individuals with alcohol use disorders. These individuals were surveyed at baseline and 1 year, 3 years, 8 years, and…
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Alcoholics Anonymous Effectiveness: Faith Meets Science

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March 31, 2015

There has much, if not too much, talk of the effectiveness of AA in recent weeks,months and year. Whether there is a concerted controlled drinking agenda is for you to decide. Controlled drinking for an alcoholic, for me and particularly a chronic alcoholic, is a mirage. Period. Once you have…
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A Brief History of Controlled Drinking and Irrational Science – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com

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March 25, 2015

My blog today on Addictionland! A Brief History of Controlled Drinking and Irrational Science – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com.
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A Brief History of Controlled Drinking – the Irrationality of Science

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March 24, 2015

In a recent blog a few days ago I challenged some of Gabrielle Glaser’s “evidence” in her article “The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous “, which purported to demonstrate the so-called effectiveness of “controlling drinking”. Glaser cited the following in her article “ To many, though, the idea of non-abstinent…
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Why Alcoholics Anonymous Works

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March 23, 2015

A journalistic piece entitled, “The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous “, written by Gabrielle Glaser, also harshly criticizes Alcoholics Anonymous. AA and similar 12-step programs. I cite a blog on her criticisms here (1) Why Alcoholics Anonymous Works “Glaser’s central claim is that there’s no rigorous scientific evidence that AA and other…
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The Irrationality of Controlled Drinking?

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March 19, 2015

The Irrationality of Controlled Drinking? by alcoholicsguide “Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics…Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday, he will control and…
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