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You gotta remember that at the time that was written, a lot less was known about addiction, and about the brain in general. It's also a different style of writing than you'd usually see today. If you look into the history of the group, and other groups that were trying to help people achieve sobriety, you'll also see that that's there to differentiate them from the Oxford group, who went with the idea that it was something that could be overcome.I don't really like AA programs because they come across as a sort of cult due to the religious shit and not only that literally the first step of AA is this (this is quoted directly from their website):
"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable."
Alcohol is of course addictive but just the idea that you're telling people to own the fact they are powerless is ridiculous. You can literally write your own goals and aspirations down without the direction of anyone else and start holding yourself accountable.
It's more about getting people to accept that if they don't have power over alcohol, and can't stop once they start, then the best option is to just not engage with it. "One drink is too many, and a thousand is never enough."
Yes, there are plenty of bad AA programs, and plenty of people who will use them to access vulnerable addicts, but there are far more good ones. They provide a community, a group of people that you can talk to about the things you've done in the thralls of addiction that won't judge you for it, but won't coddle you for it either.








































