Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in Aa, Na, or 12-Step Treatment - Softcover

Peele, Stanton; Bufe, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884365175 ISBN 13: 9781884365171

Publisher: See Sharp Pr, 2000

This book is a guide for the one million-plus Americans per year who face coerced religious indoctrination in the guise of alcohol or drug treatment. It outlines legal strategies and existing court decisions and shows how useless and sometimes harmful 12-step treatment can be. It also contains a considerable amount of material on the routine violation of standard medical ethics by addiction treatment providers, and examples of such violations.

About the Author:

Stanton Peele is a psychologist, attorney, and distinguished critic of the addiction treatment industry. He is the author of Diseasing of America and coauthor of Love and Addiction and The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. Charles Bufe is the author of Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? Archie Brodsky is senior research associate in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Harvard Medical School. He is the co-author of Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling.

Review:

"Powerful and penetrating analyses of what is wrong with U.S. substance-abuse policy today."  —Peter Webster, International Journal of Drug Policy

 

• Publisher: See Sharp Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1884365175
• ISBN 13: 9781884365171
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160