re: #79 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Fixing Rehab:

It’s a non-very-well-kept secret that AA and other rehab programs don’t work. This nifty guy, however, has used sociological approaches to review the current treatment methodologies and found the very few that does work, and has set up a system for rating centers based on how well they comply with that working model. The solution, as he says, isn’t ‘rocket science’, it starts with competent people and not hewing rigidly to an ideology.

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From what I understand, the guy that came up with the AA program thought that alcoholism was an allergy. That kinda made me giggle since one of the prevailing treatment for allergies is to introduce the allergen frequently until the body builds up an immunity to its reaction to it.