culture and illness

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 18 07:21:57 PST 1998


Alec Ramsdell wrote:


>My criticism of addiction treatment is that it is too quick to accept
>the medical model of addiction, before other possible disabling
>conditions.

Most addiction treatments have pretty dismal records, don't they? The rabidly anti-drug Mitch Rosenthal of Phoenix House has refused to let anyone study their success rate, which leads one to assume it's very low. AA also has a high recidivism rate, no (not to mention all that "higher power" crap)? Does anything work?

Doug



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