If
you think alcoholism addiction treatments work, then think again. It's really
amazing that throughout the country alcoholism treatment centers, alcoholism
treatment professionals and alcoholism organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous
(AA) to name a few, claim that alcoholism treatment is successful when the
truth is that only three percent are successful.
Year after year they have made this claim in spite of contradicting evidence.
When professionals are saying that their treatment methods are so good that
they have rarely seen a person not succeed, carefully following their methods,
it sounds pathetic. The fact is that people rarely succeed when following the
methods used by AA and other similar treatment philosophies. This is
super-pathetic when we know that 95% of all the alcoholism treatment centers
in USA are using the 12 Step philosophy promoted by AA with a success rate of
three percent! AA has the same success rate: three percent !
While alcohol treatment centers, organizations and other treatment
professionals are claiming that their treatment works, what do they mean?
Don't they know about the statistical evidence everybody else can read? Of
course they do. When they say that their treatment works, what is working and
how does it work? Does 'successful' mean they will stop drinking forever or
does it mean that they will only drink one glass of wine each Saturday for the
rest of their lives? Or does it mean that they stop drinking for a month or
so?
Why should we accept all this misleading and straight forward dishonest
assurance that their programs work if you do as they say? Actually the GSO,
AAWS and other organizations claim without hesitation success without even a
slightest foundation. In the real world statements like these are completely
contradictive to empirical evidence. Alcoholism treatment is a tremendous
failure. Whether it is done by AA, treatment centers or other alcoholism
treatment professionals they are complete failures. Their treatment methods
don't work for 97 percent of the treated patients. If that is not a failure,
what is a failure then?
Most people would believe that alcoholism addiction treatments are working. If
they argue long enough they may convince people with alcohol or other
substance abuse problems to go for a treatment. These people are in strong
need for help and they join a treatment group with an expectation or at least
a hope of getting rid of their problems. Having been in treatment for a while
they realize that this doesn't work and he or she can never get well. Finally
they realize that there is no cure for them. This is the reality for 97
percent of all alcoholics in treatment. Sad, but true.
