Links — A Zillion Links to Everything

• http://www.rrci.net/recovery_spectrum.htm == The Recovery Spectrum; a comparison of available organizations

• http://hamsnetwork.org/chat == chat room
• http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/hamshrn == email group
• http://hamsnetwork.org/live == live meetings

• http://www.unhooked.com/lsr/faq.htm — FAQ.
  
• Note that LifeRing provides live, online meetings on the Internet:
  http://www.unhooked.com/chat/Chat.html — the Unhooked chat
• http://www.unhooked.com/chat/index.html — another link to the Unhooked chat
• http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LSRmail/ — a Yahoo group, "LifeRing Secular Recovery"

• Dr. Albert Ellis' book, When AA Doesn't Work for You, Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol
• the SMART online chat groups, http://smartrecovery.infopop.cc/paraentry.php
• and SMART message boards, http://smartrecovery.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x
• Also see the SMART web page about legal cases that have established that coerced A.A. meeting attendance is unConstitutional:
  http://www.smartrecovery.org/courts/court-mandated-attendance.htm

• http://www.sossobriety.org/aalinks.htm — links to other pro-recovery 12-Step-free resources
• http://www.sossobriety.org
  
• http://www.sos-rochester.org/ — Rochester, NY, SOS on the web.
• http://members.tripod.com/SOS-Members/sos-aa-i.htm — SOS = Secular Organizations for Sobriety.

• http://www.unhooked.com/nosmoke/index.html — A List of Quit Smoking Resources
  
• http://www.unhooked.com/sep/persip1.htm — Recovery From Addiction Without God?, by Gary Lee Persip.

• WFS also has online chat groups:
  http://www.womenforsobriety.org/news_conferences/chat.html
• For groups in your area you can also call 1-800-333-1606.

1. http://www.morerevealed.com/aadep/ == what used to be "http://www.aadeprogramming.com/" — This is the historical archive and mirror of AA Deprogramming, one of the first and best anti-AA web sites.
2. http://www.morerevealed.com/library/index.html == Many anti-AA books are now available for free download here

3. James G, Mike, "Blamedenial", and "Blame the Nile":

   • http://www.youtube.com/user/blamethenile == "blamedenial", "blame the Nile", James G videos on YouTube

   • http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/blamedenial/

   • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-XlZdhlOE — James G.'s anti-AA video, "Question Authority". Quite good.

   • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSNnlIk7Po == James G on the HBO "Addiction" series

   • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4oc2lX-F6_M — James G., NA Paltalk

   • http://www.blamedenial.co.uk/ — James G.'s web site describing his experiences in the 12-Step cult. Very good.

   • http://www.blamedenial.co.uk/confessionsession.html — another video, "The Hole in the Soul"

4. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12-Step_Coercion_Watch/ == 12-Step Coercion Watch

5. http://leavingaa.com == Massive's blog. Many horror stories that reveal what is wrong with A.A.

6. http://tomysurprize.wordpress.com/category/life/ == Another woman's blog that talks about the problems with 12-Step "recovery".

7. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabugsusbecause/ — AA Bugs Us Because...

8. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12-step-free — Self-described as: 'This is a large yahoo group of ex-AA and ex-"XA" (meaning any "anonymous" program based on the 12 steps originally created by AA) people. It is very open to debate and free thinking, but it's main point is for those needing to be free of the 12 steps.'

9. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EFTCoaa
   Self-described as: 'This group is called Escaping From The Cult of AA. Despite only one membership "drive", it has continuously grown over a year's time.'

10. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/without_aa/ — Without A.A.

11. http://www.baldwinresearch.com/index.cfm == Baldwin Research Institute — sane, scientific, non-12-step recovery options
    WARNING: I have been told that Baldwin Research is a Scientology front, and that they have even shared a phone line with another Scientology organization. I cannot say for sure without much more investigation (which I haven't gotten A Round Tuit yet). What I do know is that they occasionally have very accurate criticisms of Alcoholics Anonymous.

12. http://www.wglasser.com/ — The William Glasser Institute — Founded in 1967 by Dr. William Glasser, the Institute is a tax-exempt foundation for training in the behavioral and educational sciences.
    http://www.wglasser.com/whatisct.htm — What Is Choice Theory? Choice Theory® is the basis for all programs taught by the Institute. It states that all we do is behave, that almost all behavior is chosen, and that we are driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.

13. http://users.erols.com/ksciacca/ == Dual Diagnosis Website, Kathleen Sciacca
    Kathleen Sciacca is the author of works like "MIDAA service manual for mental illness, drug addiction and alcoholism" and "Integrated treatment for mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism (MIDAA) across Alaska". Ms. Sciacca is former director of a New York Statewide MICAA training site for program and staff development.

14. http://www.lakeviewhealth.com/treating-drug-addiction-and-mental-health-disorders.php == a "well-organized article on dual diagnosis". (Thanks for the tip, Christine.)

15. Marc F. Kern Ph.D. C.A.S
    
    • http://www.1TherapyPlace.com
    • http://www.AAalternative.com
      
    • http://www.HabitDoc.com
      
    • http://www.AddictionInfo.org
      
    • http://www.SelfHelpGroupLocator.com
      

16. http://www.boozefreebuddies.com
    "I run a group called Booze Free Buddies. I couldn't stomach AA and it's brainwashing and was shocked at the lack of support for people in need of help with alcohol addiction who didn't want to go to AA."

17. http://www.boozefreebuddies.com
    Self-described as: I run a group called Booze Free Buddies. I couldn't stomach AA and it's brainwashing and was shocked at the lack of support for people in need of help with alcohol addiction who didn't want to go to AA.

"Given the prevalence of addiction in society and the extensive evidence regarding how to identify, intervene and treat it, continued failure to do so signals widespread system failure in health care service delivery, financing, professional education and quality assurance. It also raises the question of whether the low levels of care that addiction patients usually do receive constitutes a form of medical malpractice."

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• http://www.practicalrecovery.com/ourservices/rationale.html — the rationale behind practical recovery

• Also see:
  http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/53/1/What-works-A-summary-of-alcohol-treatment-research/Page1.html == The same statistics in a different format

• http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altbelief.html — Why bogus therapies seem to work.
  (also see QuackWatch here.)

• http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAbuse.html == Alcohol Abuse
• http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrivingIssues/index.html == Drunk Driving Issues

• http://www.recoveryconnection.org/ == The Addiction Helpline from RecoveryConnection.org

1. http://www.healthe-livingnews.com/articles/ american_medical_association_sorbid_history.html — Healthe-Living News — A sordid history of the AMA
2. http://www.chiroweb.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=38637 — Chainsaw vs. Sawbones: The Amazing Story of the AMA's Endorsement-for-Sale Scheme
3. http://www.newstarget.com/008845.html — Newstarget — What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history
4. http://www.newstarget.com/z008845.html — Newstarget — More of What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history, including the story of Morris Fishbein, the con artist leader of the AMA from 1924 to 1949.
5. http://www.naturalnews.com/008845.html — What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history
6. http://www.rense.com/general19/enemy.htm — Morris Fishbein — AMA Enemy Of American Health, and Royal Rife
7. http://www.illuminati-news.com/morris-fishbein.htm — Morris Fishbein, AMA Enemy of American Health
8. http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters28.html#AMA. In the nineteen-nineties, the AMA had a joint committee of two Alcoholics Anonymous front groups finally write a goofy definition of "alcoholism".

1. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ — Prevention
2. http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ — Pandemic flu, avian flu, and seasonal flu are not the same thing

• NIAAA == National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health.
  http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
  • http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/RelatedWebsites — the web page where this taxpayer-supported government agency is supposed to be giving you valid, honest information about the various aids to recovery that are available. They list 12-Step cult-oriented web sites, but do not list any of the non-cult alternatives like SMART or Rational Recovery. Practical Recovery reports that they have repeated asked the NIAAA to change this page, but they refuse to do so. Why is that? Are the authorities at the NIAAA taking bribes, or are they members of the cult?

• NIDA == National Institute on Drug Abuse
  http://www.nida.nih.gov/
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
    http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA%5fNotes/NNVol11N1/Council.html
  • NIDA Infofax
    http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/Infofaxindex.html

• http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altbelief.html — Why bogus therapies seem to work.
• http://www.quackwatch.org/02ConsumerProtection/complain.html — Where to complain about quackery

1. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/who_lexicon/en/ == Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms published by the World Health Organization

1. Mitchell K. 12: The Saddest Day In A.A. History
   
2. Mitchell K. 13: German Court Date Delayed
   
3. Mitchell K. 15: Open Letter to A.A. Members
   
4. Mitchell K. 20: The A.A. German Court Case
   
5. Mitchell K. 21: German Court Orders A.A. Books Destroyed
   
6. Mitchell K. 22: Threats By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Attempt Cutting Off a Member's Right To Communicate with the Fellowship
   
7. Mitchell K.'s appeal to the membership, 1998

1. http://www.morerevealed.com/aadep/ == what used to be "http://www.aadeprogramming.com/" — This is the historical archive and mirror of AA Deprogramming, one of the first and best anti-AA web sites.
2. http://www.morerevealed.com/library/index.html == Many anti-AA books are now available for free download here
3. http://www.morerevealed.com/courts/index.html == Important court decisions that declared that A.A. is a religion, or engages in religious activities, and it is illegal and unConstitutional to force somebody to go to A.A. meetings, or "work the Program".

• http://gsowatch.aamo.info/tax/index.htm — A.A. tax reports
• http://gsowatch.aamo.info/mex/sentenced.htm — a Mexican A.A. member is sentenced to prison for a year for translating and reprinting old out-of-copyright materials after the A.A. leadership commits perjury and tells the Mexican court that the Big Book was written by a "Wayne Parks" rather recently, so it is still under copyright. That was of course a blatant lie. It was written in 1938 and 1939 by Bill Wilson and between 40 and 50 other people, but not by any "Wayne Parks".

1. http://www.unhooked.com/sep/warnerny.htm == Warner v. Orange County
2. http://www.unhooked.com/sep/tennessee.htm == Evans v. Tennessee Board of Paroles
3. http://www.unhooked.com/sep/griffin.htm == Griffin v. Coughlin
4. http://pub.bna.com/cl/994013.htm == Rauser v. Horn
5. Also see: http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/ == Supreme Court decisions on religion

1. http://www.dangerthinice.org/Anti-Coercion%2012%20Steps.htm == John McCready's Anti-Coercion 12 Steps
2. http://www.dangerthinice.org/Lawsuit%20aa.htm == Lawsuits
3. http://www.dangerthinice.org/aa.htm == AA Cult Watch or Warning Groups & Web Sites
4. http://www.dangerthinice.org/12_steps_to_another_gospel.htm == 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency/Recovery Heresies

On their own
There is a high rate of recovery among alcoholics and addicts, treated and untreated. According to one estimate, heroin addicts break the habit in an average of 11 years. Another estimate is that at least 50% of alcoholics eventually free themselves although only 10% are ever treated. One recent study found that 80% of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated. When a group of these self-treated alcoholics was interviewed, 57% said they simply decided that alcohol was bad for them. Twenty-nine percent said health problems, frightening experiences, accidents, or blackouts persuaded them to quit. Others used such phrases as "Things were building up" or "I was sick and tired of it." Support from a husband or wife was important in sustaining the resolution.
Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction — Part III, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, Volume 12, Number 4, October 1995, page 3.
(See Aug. (Part I), Sept. (Part II), Oct. 1995 (Part III).)

So much for the sayings that "Everybody needs a support group" and "Nobody can do it alone". Most successful people do.

• http://12schrittefrei.de/article.php?mod=doc&path;=articles/snorkindex.tpl == Snork's essays

• http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters372.html#Jim_B — first letter
• http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters372.html#Jim_B2 — second letter
• http://www.orange-papers.org/DRUG_COURT_PAMPHLET.docx — the pamphlet

• http://www.roizen.com/ron/mann.htm — Exploding the myth that Marty Mann learned that "alcoholism is a disease" from Bill Wilson, the Big Book, or A.A..
• http://www.roizen.com/ron/postrepeal.htm — Why did the Yale alcohol science group fund "Mrs." Marty Mann's and her organization's proselytizing and A.A. promotion activities from 1944 to 1949?
• http://www.roizen.com/ron/rr11.htm — E. M. Jellinek, the modern proponent of the disease theory of alcoholism, was a fraud who faked his academic credentials
  (Also see: http://www.orange-papers.org/forum/node/654

1. Washington DC has a large A.A. group for young people that specializes in the sexual exploitation of under-age girls by old sponsors. Check out this list of links.

2. And there are many more new links here.

3. Newsweek magazine published an article:
   http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID;=137850505&blogID;=258918827
   == A 15-year-old girl is told to cut off all communications with people outside of A.A., and stop taking medications for a bipolar disorder, and is encouraged to have sex with MUCH older A.A. men.
   

4. Also see:
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368218/site/newsweek/
   == where MSNBC has reprinted the Newsweek article

5. A Washington Post article:
   http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/midtown_group_aa_group_leads_m.html == "Midtown Group: AA Group Leads Members Away from Traditions"
   Includes a good debate between the people posting comments.
   

6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101356.html?referrer=emailarticle — Washington Post, Midtown Group

7. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/08/aa_renegade_dieswhither_midtow.html == AA Renegade Dies — Whither Midtown?
   There is a very good long list of comments on this article.

8. Midtown Group banned from another church in Washington DC. See the story here.

9. A girl ended up in the hospital after she was told to have sex with the male cult members and stop taking her doctor-prescribed psychiatric medications. See story here.

10. A policeman's wife says that she was encouraged to cheat on her husband and to divorce him. See the story here.

1. http://apologeticsindex.org/a28.html == Alcoholics Anonymous... '... "At an AA meeting, you can talk about anything else, but not Jesus Christ," Baker says. "I'd be mocked when I talked about my higher power."'

• http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9749.htm — Alcoholics Anonymous Sounds 'New Age'
  
• http://www.positiveatheism.org/rw/nycase.htm — Cliff Walker
• http://www.positiveatheism.org/tocrw.htm — Cliff Walker's Recovery Watch
• http://www.positiveatheism.org/rw/alcohol.htm — New Frontline in the Battle for Separation of Church and State

• http://www.peele.net/faq/aarole.html — AA's role in society — more negative than positive?
• http://www.peele.net/lib/bufe.html — Introduction to Charles Bufe's AA:Cult or Cure
• http://www.peele.net/debate/talbott.html — the G. Douglas Talbott horror story. Dr. Talbott ran a 12-Step-oriented "addiction treatment clinic" for doctors and other medical professionals that drove them to suicide.
• http://www.peele.net/faq/aasuicide.html — Does A.A. Cause Suicide?
• Peele on genetics of alcoholism.
• Stanton Peele reported on Jellinek's fraud
• http://www.morerevealed.com/library/index.html
  == free download: "Resisting 12-Step Coercion", by Stanton Peele and Charles Bufe
• Stanton Peele's interview on Blogtalk radio:
  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/harm-reduction/2011/03/04/stanton-peele-on-addiction-in-the-real-world
• The Life Process Gambling Program <http://www.lifeprocessgamblingprogram.com/> == help for compulsive gamblers
• The Life Process Drug and Alcohol Program <http://www.lifeprocessprogram.com/> == help for compulsive drinkers

• http://www.morerevealed.com/articles/ther.htm — "Therapeutic groups versus 12-step groups: An analysis of the AA prototype", By Cathleen A. Mann

• http://www.morerevealed.com/alkiehorror.jsp — Devin's Alkie Horror Picture Show — it's a hoot.

• http://www.morerevealed.com/courts/index.html — Archive of documents, including the legal decisions that declared that A.A. was engaging in religious ceremonies, and that sentencing someone to go to A.A. meetings was unconstitutional.

• http://www.morerevealed.com/library/index.html — online library of books:
  1. More Revealed : A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps aka The Real AA: Behind the Myth of Twelve Step Recovery, by Ken Ragge
  2. http://www.morerevealed.com/horror-stories/index.html == Twelve-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal and Abuse in NA, AA and 12-Step Treatment, edited Rebecca Fransway, Ed.
  3. Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?, by Charles Bufe
  4. Resisting 12-Twelve Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participitation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment, by Stanton Peele and Charles Bufe with Archie Brodsky
  5. Saints Run Mad, by Marjorie Harrison
  6. Soul Surgery; Some Thoughts on Incisive Personal Work, by Howard Arnold Walter, M.A.

• http://www.schaler.net/fifth/cultbusting.html — Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler on cult-busting.
• http://www.schaler.net/talbott.html — About Dr. Talbott who used 12-Step torture to drive doctors and nurses to suicide.
• http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~expert/psychnews/ — Jeffrey Schaler writes "The Fifth Column" for this magazine

• http://www.citypaper.net/articles/110499/news.cb.chestnut.shtml — Anti-AA: Jeffrey Schaler's college dumped him from the faculty because of his views on addiction and AA... that Alcoholics Anonymous bears more than a passing resemblance to a cult. The A.A. true believers could not tolerate him after he published his book Addiction is a Choice.
• http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~expert/psychnews/6_1/index.htm — the last issue
• http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~expert/psychnews/1_7/pni7_1_b.htm — David J. Essex, AN UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT

1. 1996 Study:
   http://www.uga.edu/ntcs/reports/NTCS%20summary%20reports/NTCS%20Report%20No.%201.pdf

2. 2005 Study:
   http://www.uga.edu/ntcs/reports/NTCS%20summary%20reports/NTCS%20Report%20No.%208.pdf

• http://thearidsite.tripod.com/ARTICLES.HTM == a variety of articles
  • http://thearidsite.tripod.com/AR060930.HTM == How To Survive Coerced A.A.
  • http://thearidsite.tripod.com/AR050831.HTM == The Coffee Conspiracy
  • http://thearidsite.tripod.com/AR060708.HTM == Debunking Denial
  • http://thearidsite.tripod.com/AR050721.HTM == The pro-addiction swindle

• http://www.expaa.org/apps/links/ == the links page; links to more good information.

http://freedomfrom12steps.blogspot.com/2007/05/midtown-aa-group-update-and-some-random.html — Comments and links about the Midtown Group of A.A.

1. http://truetalesfromalcoholicsanonymous.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/escape-from-aa/ — a blog, Escape from Alcoholics Anonymous. Best lines: The advice "look for the similarities" is really a veiled admonition that newcomers should discard their critical faculties, and not ask awkward but pertinent questions regarding the true agenda of the meeting.
   AA's message simply does not stand up to rational examination, hence the intellect is treated with scorn and contempt to try to preempt such examination.

2. http://truetalesfromalcoholicsanonymous.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/some-thoughts-on-wilsons-spiritual-axiom/ — Some Thoughts on Wilson's "Spiritual Axiom"

3. http://truetalesfromalcoholicsanonymous.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/the-anti-intellectualism-of-aa-and-the-12-step-doctrine/#comment-40 — The anti-intellectualism of AA and the 12 Step Doctrine

4. http://truetalesfromalcoholicsanonymous.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/the-big-book-does-not-offer-a-plan-of-recovery-from-an-illness/ — The Big Book does not offer a plan of recovery from an illness

5. http://truetalesfromalcoholicsanonymous.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/the-aa-creed-of-powerlessness-or-spiritual-fascism/ — The AA Creed of Powerlessness or Spiritual Fascism

1. Part 1 — Alcoholics Anonymous is a Cult?
2. Part 2 — A Better Meeting

1. A Gathering Place for Predators: Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous
   http://voices.yahoo.com/a-gathering-place-predators-12365031.html?cat=9

2. The AA True Believer: Letters from the Cult II - Oct 30, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/the-aa-true-believer-letters-7082796.html?cat=72

3. Apologize to Your Rapist - Oct 23, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/apologize-rapist-7032212.html?cat=5

4. Sober College - Oct 20, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/sober-college-7007958.html?cat=5

5. The AA True Believer - Oct 19, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/the-aa-true-believer-6997776.html?cat=72

6. The Alcoholics Anonymous Super Guru - Sep 27, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/the-alcoholics-anonymous-super-guru-6866422.html

7. AA is Not the Only Way! - Sep 17, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/aa-not-only-way-6805824.html?cat=5

8. The God Named "Higher Power" - Jun 3, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/the-god-named-higher-power--6154310.html?cat=5

9. A Review of an Alcoholics Anonymous Guru - Jun 3, 2010
   http://voices.yahoo.com/a-review-alcoholics-anonymous-6153314.html?cat=5

10. For a complete listing of Yahoo Voices Contributor, Vincent Van Noir on Alcoholics Anonymous see: http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/637489/vincent_van_noir.html

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• 2007_Membership_Survey_Form_Blank.pdf — Size: 58 k
  

• http://www.alcoholicshelp.info/alcoholics-anonymous-cult.html — Links page, more information

• http://www.geocities.com/rationaldl/AANAHorrorindex.html == WE Can Now Reach More of The Public in One Day Than We Ever Thought Possible, Before

• http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/bksonline.html &8212; "12 Steps to Destruction"
• http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/crit12steps.html &8212; anti-12-Step books
• http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/12stepsbk_online.html

• http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/96739.htm — Thinking about drinking: the power of self-fulfilling prophecies by Jeffrey A. Schaler
• http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/bmj1.html — the war on drugs, a British viewpoint

• http://www.moonmac.com/Cult_Called_AA.html

1. http://www.dickb.com/archives/history.shtml
2. http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=601 == article on the early A.A. success rate
3. Also see: http://casa-12steps.blogspot.com/ — Dick B. wrote a long article about how the current A.A. leadership is censoring information about Clarence Snyder and his Cleveland, Ohio A.A. group.

Talbott Treatment Center case

• Ask Dr. Salvo about the Talbott-Marsh Recovery Gulag — Doctors getting "treated" by alcoholics without training.

• I Was Wrongly Held in Alcohol Center, Doctor Charges April 27, 1999

• $1.3M Verdict Coaxes a Deal for Doctor's Coerced Rehab May 12, 1999 (Almost the same article as the one above.)

• Hicks v. Talbott Recovery System legal case

http://stinkin-thinkin.com/2009/04/12/how-alcoholics-anonymous-lies-with-statistics/

1. http://amyleecoy.com/blog/2011/02/15/wildest-dreams-come-true-outta-my-way-aa/ — Wildest Dreams Do Come True? Outta My Way AA
2. http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Authoritarianism-of-Dr-by-Amy-Lee-Coy-110303-104.html — the authoritarianism of Dr. Drew

Humor:

• http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-dry-piper.htm — Modern Drunkard Magazine, and Bill Wilson, "The Dry Piper". This has to be a spoof, but it's a beauty.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSslAhuGu8&search;=12%20step == Here is another hilarious spoof of 12-Step Recovery — "Pigs Anonymous", a 12-Step program for male chauvinist pigs

• http://lakeportna.homestead.com/NApolice.html == Another spoof, the N.A. police, enforcers of the faith

• http://www.geocities.com/sanegallery/ — Michael's anti-AA artwork

• http://www.angelfire.com/blog/aaacomix/ — The lighter side of recovery, anti-AA comics.

• http://www.snakelyone.com/12step.htm — More anti-AA humor.

• http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/ — Lip Balm Anonymous, a priceless spoof of recovery nonsense

• > http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous == another spoof of A.A. Especially see A.O. — Alcoholics Oblivious

• http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e14-bloody-mary == South Park, "Bloody Mary", Season 9, Episode 14
  I love this South Park episode, and I watch it again every so often for giggles and grins. It's the funniest spoof of A.A. that I've ever seen. — "Nobody is in charge. We are all powerless here." — "You have a disease." — "I would have quit long ago but for this damned disease. Bring me another beer." — "Make way, make way! Alcoholic coming through!"

• Penn & Teller, Bullshit, episode on Alcoholics Anonymous. == It is also great. The URL keeps changing as people post it on Youtbue, and then it gets taken down due to copyright infringements.

• http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ — a great spoof of religious fanatics

• http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID;=55515784&blogID;=256628757 == a spoof anti-AA diatribe that has some truth to it.

• http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Alcoholics_Anonymous == Encyclopedia Dramatica, spoof of Alcoholics Anonymous

• http://humor.allcrazyjokes.com/index.php/36/internet-addicts-anonymous-internet-addiction/ == Internet Addicts Anonymous — a spoof

1. http://www.sallysatelmd.com/ — How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
   
2. New York Times: For Addicts, Firm Hand Can Be the Best Medicine — promotes the idea that addicts are an inferior subspecies — fundamentally different from "normal" people, and that good fascist discipline and lots of A.A. meetings will fix them.

• Also see: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/482/punk_rocker_don_bolles_arrest_ghb_drug_test_questions

• http://12schrittefrei.de/ — Detlef Sax's 12-Step Free, in German, English, and Swedish. (There are many good items in English that you can read even if you don't speak German. Click the language selection in the upper left-hand corner of the home page to switch the web site to English.)

• http://www.noart.de/ambrosia/index.html — More of Detlef Sax's stuff from Germany.

• http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gator/aa/index.html — Peter Daum: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Alcoholics Anonymous (A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous). Peter Daum is not an ex-member. It's a scientific work, so it's from another point of view.

• http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.com/ — This is merely an alias for the official Alcoholics Anonymous web site — you get redirected to the one above. (It is now a Dead Link; the Domain Name is owned by A.A. but not used.)

• http://gso.org/ — this domain name used to be a web site that was critical of the GSO, the General Service Organization branch of Alcoholics Anonymous, but A.A. lawyers strong-armed the domain name away from its critics, and now it's another alias for A.A.

• http://www.aa.org/ — another alias for A.A.

• http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.com/ — another alias for A.A. [Dead Link]

• http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.com/ — another alias for A.A.

• http://www.aagrapevine.org/ — The monthly magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous

• http://www.anonpress.org/ — Online AA books, book ordering, intergroup phone numbers etc. Home of e-AA: an electronic reference to Alcoholics Anonymous.

• http://www.daily-reflections.com/12-steps/step-four/the-number-one-offender.html == "Resentment is the number one offender"

• http://www.ncadd-middlesex.com/static_index.htm — The NCADD of Middlesex County
• http://www.ncadd-middlesex.com/donors.htm == Corporate Donors to the NCADD of Middlesex County, like Johnson and Johnson, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. (It's a goofy web page — you have to click on "Corporate Donors" to see anything.) You might want to write to those corporate donors and ask them why they support quack medicine like 12-Step treatment. Especially ask them whether they test the efficacy of their own medicines the same way as they tested the A.A. 12-Step treatment.
  I mean, they did test the A.A. 12-Step treatment and see how well it actually works before they financed its promotion, didn't they?
  UPDATE: 19 October 2006: Hmmm... The Bristol-Myers Squibb credit has disappeared. Now the NCADD is supported by Frank's Pizza.

• http://www.aahistory.com/aa/people.html == People in AA History

1. http://www.recoveryresources.org/oxford.html == a sanitized history of the involvement of A.A. with the Oxford Group

• Has a historic photo gallery here: http://www.mensworkshop.org/AA_Gallery/index.htm

• http://silkworth.net/chat/aahistoryroom.html — Silkworth.net AA History Chat

• http://www.aahistory.com/ — more A.A. history and pro-AA propaganda

• http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.org/boards.html

• http://www.aarecovery.com/chat.htm

• http://www.chatmag.com/topics/health/aachat.html

• http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom1.html

• http://www.aa-intergroup.org/directories/chat_english.html

• http://www.solscape.com/chat/chat_a-m.html

• Also see: http://www.nsfoundation.org/sa/index.html — S/A, Schizophrenics Anonymous

• http://www.aabibliography.com/common_sense_of_drinking.htm — Richard Peabody's book "The Common Sense of Drinking"
• http://www.aabibliography.com/henrybwright.htm — Information about Henry B. Wright, the theologian at Yale University who taught the "Four Absolutes" to Frank Buchman, who in turn taught them to the Oxford Group and early A.A. members.
• http://www.aabibliography.com/principles_of_jesus_robert_speer.htm — The Principles of Jesus, by Dr. Robert E. Speer, the religious teachings from which Henry B. Wright got his ideas.

• http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/history/daniels.html — Washingtonians

• http://www.barefootsworld.net/aaphila4041.html — the miserable failure rate of the early Philadelphia A.A. group, disguised as a success rate. (Analyzed here.)

• http://www.a-1associates.com/AA/liberty_magazine.htm — The Liberty Magazine article "Alcoholics and God", Sep 1939.

1. http://hindsfoot.org/kBS5.html

1. http://www.stepnahead.com/OrderForm.htm

• http://www.aaprimarypurpose.org/SinglePurpose.htm — On AA's Singleness of Purpose

1. http://www.legacyaa.com/articles/dangers_Success.htm == "Alcoholics Anonymous, the Dangers of Success"
   — The Nation, March 2, 1964: "I concluded that AAs headquarters had been captured by an ultraconservative clique that was doing the society appreciable harm."

1. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28541 == "Losing the Battle With Addiction" — opinion about addiction
2. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28931 == "The Stockbroker and the Proctologist" — the standard fairy tale about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous

• http://www.anonyme-alkoholiker.de/ == Alcoholics Anonymous in Germany

• http://www.zwoelf-schritte.de/ == The Twelve Steps in Germany

• http://www.slaa.de/ == SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) in Germany

• http://www.narcotics-anonymous.de/ == Narcotics Anonymous in Germany

• http://www.arbeitssucht.de/ == AAS (Workaholics Anonymous) in Germany

• http://caic.org.au/general/family.htm — the cult as a family
• http://caic.org.au/general/cultcrit.htm — Criteria for determining if a Group is a Destructive Cult
• And much, much, more: http://caic.org.au/general/

• He has a couple of good books on cults, and one is specifically about how to free loved ones from cults. See:
  Combatting Cult Mind Control.
• http://freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/a/aa/is_aa_cult.htm — "Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Cult? An Old Question Revisited", by L. Allen Ragels

1. http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/lorenz_diana_spiritpain.htm == Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality: Issues of Spiritual Abuse, Religious Addiction, and Dependency in ISKCON, by Diana Lorenz

1. http://ApologeticsIndex.org == Research resources on religions, cults, sects, and related issues
2. http://ReligionNewsBlog.com == News & news archive on religions, cults, sects, and related issues
3. http://CultFAQ.org == FAQs on cults, sects and related issues.

• http://www.factnet.org/coercivemindcontrol.html — Mind Control tactics, a short overview
• http://www.factnet.org/rancho5.htm — The Criteria and Characteristics of Destructive Cult Control
• http://www.factnet.org/mindcont.htm — More Information on Mind Control and Cults
• http://www.factnet.org/letters/FACTNewsSeptember2001.html — What not to do when attacked by a terrorist cult

• http://www.aacultwatch.co.uk — A.A. Cult Watch in the U.K. This is a very odd beast — devoted A.A. members and true believers declaring that they aren't a cult, but the other half of A.A. is.
• http://www.aacultwatch.co.uk/p/aa-minority-report.html — The "Minority Report"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLT1GFNYOc — "Smile Til It Hurts" — opening and preview of selected scenes http://smiletilithurts.blogspot.com/ — The "Smile 'Til It Hurts" web site

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7IxGGfpSWk — "jonestown: the life and death of peoples temple" — pt. 1
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIL4yP0q6Q&feature;=fvwrel — "jonestown cult survivor: vc2"
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5JDz34cac&feature;=related

"The callousness of these techniques — targeting the vulnerable, building false friendships with the lonely or troubled, promising to relieve people of the most fundamental dreads of human existence from the fear of mortality to the numbing pain of grief — gave to the process an awful cruelty and dishonesty."

• Barry L. Beyerstein : "Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work"

• The Purpose Driven Life Takers, By Jonathan Hutson == a violent video game where your children kill those Manhattan residents who will not convert to fundamentalist Christianity is being marketed by a Right-wing "Christian" publishing house.
  1. The Purpose Driven Life Takers (Part 1)
  2. Violent Video Marketed Through Mega-Churches (Part 2)
  3. Revelation and Resignation (Part 3)
  4. Christian Cadre's Layman: 'A Whopper of Being Wrong' (Part 4)
  5. Apocalypse, Now a Lawsuit (Part 5)
  6. Who's Watching the Boys? (Part 6)
  7. Conservative Christian Culture Warriors Cut and Run (Part 7)
• http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/6/25/12735/8807/shadow_war/ The_Catholic_Right_Part_Six_Has_Anyone_Seen_Bill_ == The Catholic Right is surprisingly silent about the "Left Behind" video game that includes Catholics among the "unsaved" who are "left behind" in the Rapture.
• http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/2/11/13559/0530 == "Shadow War" : mainstream Protestant denominations under seige By Bruce Wilson — Attack on The United Churches of Christ — an over two decade long campaign, by the far-right-wing-financed "Institute For Religion and Democracy", and so called "renewal" groups advocating literal interpretations of the Bible and far-right social and political views, to destroy mainstream Protestant Christianity in America.
• http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/2/21/123844/326 Shadow War: Methodism Under Attack

1. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8605/the-power-of-cults == The Power of Cults
2. http://www.apologeticsindex.org/265-who-joins-cults-and-why == Who Joins Cults, and Why?
3. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7951/when-spirituality-goes-awry-students-in-cults == When Spirituality Goes Awry: Students in Cults
4. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10212/todays-cults-you-might-not-recognize-them == Today's Cults: You Might Not Recognize Them
5. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17851/westboro-hate-group == British newspaper article about the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group that pickets the funerals of American soldiers who died in the Iraq War.

1. See the wikipedia page on Rick Ross: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ross_%28consultant%29
2. http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html == the Landmark Forum, which is what Werner Erhard's "est" scam turned into
3. http://www.cultnews.com/ == Cult News Network — More cult news from Rick Ross
   • http://www.cultnews.com/archives/000380.html == using yoga to promote a cult

• A letter to the editors of the WSWS about Frank Buchman's Fascist leanings. I sent WSWS this letter in response to one of their articles. They didn't publish it.

• http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/penthouse-LRonHubbardJr-interview-1983.htm == Penthouse Interview with L. Ron Hubbard Jr. The Scientology founder's son is totally against Scientology, and calls it a criminal enterprise, and the Scientology organization would like him to quit talking about it.

• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ == home page
• http://www.studytech.org/study_tech.php == Scientology "Study Tech", by Dr. Dave Touretzky
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/CW99/ == a protest against Scientology, in Clearwater, Florida
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky == wikipedia page on Dr. Dave Touretzky
• http://xenutv.wordpress.com/category/professor-dave-touretzky/ == The "WOG Blog", about Dr. Touretzky

• John Atack's A Piece Of Blue Sky: An insider testimony,
  http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/apobs/
• Paulette Cooper's book The Scandal of Scientology,
  http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos-get.html
• Russell Miller's book Bare-Faced Messiah: The true life and story of L. Ron Hubbard,
  http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm

• http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Time%20Magazine%20Cult%20of%20Greed.pdf — the TIME magazine issue, Scientology, the Cult of Greed.

• http://www.holysmoke.org/theta.htm — Facts About Scientology
• http://www.holysmoke.org/pc/pc.htm — Scientology's attack on Paulette Cooper

1. Anonymous.
2. Anonymous.
3. Kim's letter.

• http://www.nospank.net/n-o84r.htm — Six camp counselors charged with murder, 2005. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a long list of the names of children murdered in those "boot camps".
• In Florida, the camp "drill sergeants" and a "nurse" murder another child: http://www.nospank.net/anderson.htm == the story of Martin Lee Anderson.
• http://www.nospank.net/lawrenc3.htm for information on Michael Pearl's child-abuse instructional books. Michael Pearl is an evangelical minister from Tennessee who writes books about child discipline where he advocates spanking children with PVC plastic pipe — even spanking babies as young as 4 months. And he passes that criminal behavior off as "Christianity".
• http://www.nospank.net/news5.htm == a good list of news items

• http://www.religionnewsblog.com/category/1557 News tracker : Dahn hak