See Sharp Press has an excellent series on this very same topic, including this (among two or three others):
_Resisting 12-Step Coercion_ by Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, and Archie Brodsky.
This revealing text 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.
@ http://www.seesharppress.com/books1.html [scroll down]
-B.
At 03:12 PM 5/14/2008, John Thornton wrote:
"Can anyone offer any suggested reading for a decent critique of 12 step recovery programs?"