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"The
roads to recovery are many."
-- AA Cofounder Bill
W., The AA Grapevine, Sept. 1944, Vol. 1 No. 4. |
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Sixty per cent do it
without AA
"Grapevine: You said about 40
percent of the people who remain abstinent do it through AA. What about
the other 60 percent? Could we in AA be more open, more supportive of
these?
"George Vaillant: Yes. ... [I]t doesn't hurt at the
level of GSO for AA to have humility and understand that 60 percent do
it without AA."
-- "A Doctor Speaks:
Interview," George E. Vaillant M.D., Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Class A Trustee
of Alcoholics Anonymous, in The AA Grapevine, May 2001,
p. 36.
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"1. No single treatment is
appropriate for all individuals. Matching treatment
settings, interventions, and services to each
individual's particular problems and needs is critical
to his or her ultimate success in returning to
productive functioning in the family, workplace, and
society."
-- National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA),
Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment -- A Research-Based
Guide (1999)
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"[A]ddiction professionals who
claim universal superiority for their treatment
disqualify themselves as scientists and healers by the
very grandiosity of that claim."
-- William L. White,
M.A., in
Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction
Treatment and Recovery in America (1998)
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"A strong and consistent finding in
research on motivation is that people are most likely to
undertake and persist in an action when they perceive
that they have personally chosen to do so."
-- Reid K. Hester,
William R. Miller, in :
Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches:
Effective Alternatives. 2nd Ed, 1995. |
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"The first principle of
recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be
the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may
offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care,
but not cure."
-- Judith Herman, M.D., in
Trauma and
Recovery (1997) |
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“We change
most effectively when we have a plan for learning that
fits our lives, interests, resources, and goals.”
-- Daniel
Goleman, Working With Emotional Intelligence
(1998) |
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"Your President and other
pioneers in and outside your Society have been achieving notable results
for a long time, many of their patients having made good recoveries
without any A.A. at all. It should here be noted that some of the
recovery methods employed outside A.A. are quite in contradiction to AA
principles and practice. Nevertheless, we of AA ought to applaud the
fact that certain of these efforts are meeting with increasing success."
-- AA co-founder
Bill W., Address to the New York City
Medical Society on Alcoholism, April 28, 1958. Online at
http://www.historyofaa.com/billw/med1958.htm
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