RE: NA/AA is bogus
April 25, 2014 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2014 at 10:33 am by Chas.)
Do you also doubt that depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, etc. are diseases? 
Addiction is most certainly at least a mental disease, and many substances are physically addictive. I assume you've gone through withdrawal?
I have been clean and sober for nearly 25 years. I went to AA and NA and they helped me. My experience is no more evidence than is yours - they are both just anecdotes.
I don't know whether 12-step programs are very effective or not; determining that will require actual studies.
Your claim that it is bogus is worth no more than someone's claim that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Addiction is most certainly at least a mental disease, and many substances are physically addictive. I assume you've gone through withdrawal?
I have been clean and sober for nearly 25 years. I went to AA and NA and they helped me. My experience is no more evidence than is yours - they are both just anecdotes.
I don't know whether 12-step programs are very effective or not; determining that will require actual studies.
Your claim that it is bogus is worth no more than someone's claim that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
