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@sheilathomas240 Based on what you have said, moderation does not appear to be an option for you. It isn’t for me, either. Good luck, and thanks for a very relevant post. Mike
i was a heroin addict and had always socially drank. When i stopped using smack i would drink socially and one time i went onto naltrexone which means the effects of heroin wouldnt work but a side effect of it i noticed was that i didnt feel like drinking when on these tablets it was wierd but it never occured to me at the time i just thought “i dont want to drink either” ironically enough i stopped the tablets about 5 years ago a slowly started drinking again and now i need to go to rehab
Hi Jimmy. I’ve heard good reports of naltrexone from people whose judgement I trust.. Here’s to a constructive and fulfilled life beyond the ersatz miracles of the rooms. Here’s to happiness when and where we can find it.
@exposeaa Thanks for the post, and congrats on your progress. Mike
Naltrexone was part of my Personal Recovery Plan… I’ve also done a bunch of work on underlying issues… I’ve been sober for almost 4 years.
AA held me back for a long time. I would not advise anyone to join the AA cult.
I drink AA for breakfast.
It works for alcohol too with the Sinclair Method
This may be a little off topic, but great pick for the song. A song about how we live through other people’s misery fits well with the subject matter. This is the same organisation that teaches that other people dying gives you more chance to live, after all.
More on topic, I’m glad to see you got sober.
so you’re not an alcoholic? why go to aa in the first place?
@bluegoose94 The first thing I would ask you is how you feel when you don’t drink. Dumb question, I know, but perhaps it is that easy. If not, and you are interested in a pharmacutical approach, google “naltrexone”, and ask your doctor about it. Also google “AA alternatives” and check out the various links. SMART and Rational Recovery might both merit a look-see. Good luck to you, however it shakes out. Mike
i am lost. all i got out of the vid was there is another way other than aa. i am 25 and drink a little more than a 12 pack a day. i am starting to see some side effects, like my memory and even my vocabulary as well as my spelling. i want to quit but don’t want to go to aa i am afraid it well be a bunch of old people. what worked for you. you talked a little about a drug. i don’t want to change one habbit for another. my drinking also recently put in the the hospital. please help
What do you mean by that?
celtic — you amke my minute saying the motives are good.
Next time, try to be logical, if that is possible
some people will believe anything
AA hasn’t changed, either. Didn’t work, doesn’t work, isn’t going to work. Keep up the good work. Mike
Your point was?
Alcohol hasn’t changed, alcoholism hasn’t changed, acoholics haven’t changed.
It worked for me.
I’m glad things are working out for you. Thanks for checking in. Mike
I spent a few years in AA for my drinking problem and let just say that I met some really fantastic human beings there and through their fellowship and hard work doing the 12 steps I make it sober about 8 months at the longest. I gotta say that my faith in God was never stronger than when I was in the program. It just never worked for me. I am now trying naltrexone. So far it has been like a miracle.
People also thought homeopathic medicine worked during the black plague.
I wonder how much the medical field has changed in 70 years in comparison to the changes in AA?
AA has not changed in 70 years because it is about as effective as a placebo or voodoo remedy.
I posted a comment to let others know not all share your beliefs. In the 30′s some postulated that alcoholism was a scourge on society and we should be sterilized, locked up or dead. That was the era in which AA took root, to them staying sober was a matter of life and death. Not all meetings, are to my liking so I pick and choose which meetings I attend. I care for those who want to get sober (you may too). AA works for me, I want to help others who think AA can work for them. Thk u
Claude
No where have we suggested eugenics, or even exclusivity. We mere present that AA is far from the organization portrayed. When someone who is not an alcoholic chairs a meeting, or someone stands on the floor of the US Senate and pushes for 12-step treatment funding because AA saved his life after nine tries, our original premise stands. AA is neither, and it is very dishonest in its self-portrayal. Mike
I’m sure you believe your motivations are good. However if exclusivity were the policy of AA it would not, could not exist. AA is only here as a solution to an addiction. Granted self- mutilators should seek therapy for cutting, as do those who suffer from depression or other mental illnesses. But to exclude simply on the basis of another underlying issue, no, sorry. Who shall you ban next the retarded? Those who envisioned a perfect race by means of eugenics had sound motivations as well.
AA requires nothing, particularly now that self-mutilators and heroin addicts are carrying the same court slips as their alcoholic progenitors. AA is neither alcoholics, nor anonymous. Its methods, however, remain equally ineffective throughout the entire spectrum of human troubles. Our facts are sound, as are our motivations. Mike
Remember AA requires only a desire to quit drinking it does not say your desire to quit drinking requires AA. Good luck with your crusade because, to me that’s what all this sounds like. Thank God my happiness is not contingent upon your belief or lack there of. I think your efforts and skills could be used more positively to benefit a cause you believe in and not attacking one you so obviously dislike. Intelligent argument stems from thoughtfulness not anger; based upon fact not opinion.