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In reply to the discussion: Alcoholics Anonymous has a terrible success rate, addiction expert finds [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)is full of shit.
Like quite a few others here, I've known a lot of people who were able to stop drinking with the help of AA.
As they say in the program, "It works if you work it".
If you don't seriously work the program, it's not going to work.
Period.
End of story.
Also, I'd like to know where he's getting his alleged statistics from...maybe people who gave up too soon. Or didn't do what they were supposed to do in order to recover.
Granted, no program is going to be 100% successful.
But AA has been around since the 30s. The lives of literally MILLIONS of people have been changed for the better.
And since it's an anonymous program, maybe he didn't get the full count of how many people AA has helped. Because, it's...you know...anonymous.
How can anyone figure out how, and if, something is working if they don't even know how many are actually being helped?
So yeah...I think he's full of shit.