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📄 Articles(9)

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The 13th Step

Monica Richardson

The 13th Step is a critical exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous. When an AA member killed a mother & child in Honolulu, a five-year investigation ensued. We discovered courts order violent/sexual offenders to AA meetings, unknown to the public.

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Is Religion an Addiction?

HubPages

The psychology and physiology of religion compel a comparison with drug use. Symptoms of the God addiction are alarmingly familiar.

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Rebellion Dogs Publishing

Rebellion Dogs Publishing

Home to Rebellion Dogs Radio, Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life and a community for freethinkers in recovery.

📚 Books(4)

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The Biology of Desire

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Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist—and former addict himself—explains why the disease model of addiction is wrong and how it obstructs the path to recovery. Combining intimate human examples with clearly rendered scientific explanations, The Biology of Desire is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.

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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

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Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," The New York Times Bestseller, Unbroken Brain, offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all.

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The Abstinence Myth: A New Approach For Overcoming Addiction Without Shame, Judgment, Or Rules

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In this simple yet radical new book, Adi Jaffe, PhD, draws on his own life experience, cutting-edge research, and work with hundreds of clients and families to offer a new perspective on addiction and a new pathway out of its grasp. The Abstinence Myth introduces the IGNTD RECOVERY METHOD, including: - Details of Adi's dramatic and inspiring personal story. - The Mythology of Addiction and how it gets in our way with spiritual, biological, psychological, and environmental assumptions that are, in fact, only true some of the time for some people. - Why the concept of "abstinence" is often a barrier to change and is not necessary for everyone for all time. - Important research that will shift your thinking, sense of hope, and success. - Why shame can keep holding you back--and finding the way out. - An explanation of the 3 IGNTD principles and the 9 steps to personalize your unique recovery path.

🎙️ Podcasts(1)

🏢 Organizations(6)

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SMART Recovery

Self Help Addiction Recovery Program | Alternative to AA. Self-Management And Recovery Training is a global community of people & families working together to overcome the suffering caused by addiction and thrive.

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Secular Organizations for Sobriety

a nonprofit network of autonomous, non-professional local groups, dedicated solely to helping individuals achieve and maintain sobriety/abstinence from alcohol and drug addiction, food addiction and more

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LifeRing Secular Recovery

abstinence-based, secular, and self-empowering addiction recovery meeting and support network

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Women for Sobriety

helping women discover a happy New Life in recovery from Substance Use Disorders

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Addiction Resource

Find addiction treatment centers in your state. Contact centers directly or contract through AR. Note: RfR is not recommending or reviewing any of these treatment centers. Please review AR's selection criteria, talk to the centers, and do your own research. Choosing an addiction treatment center may be your most important choice ever.

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AA Agnostica

While the website will remain online and accessible to all, there will not be any new articles. AA Agnostica is meant to be a helping hand for the alcoholic who reaches out to Alcoholics Anonymous for help and finds that she or he is disturbed by the religious content of many AA meetings. AA Agnostica is not affiliated with any group in AA or any other organization. Contributors to the AA Agnostica website are all members of Alcoholics Anonymous, unless otherwise indicated. The views they express are neither their groups' nor those of AA, but solely their own.

📁 Other Resources(5)

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Leaving AA Facebook Group

Leaving AA has 1,160 members. A Community for people who have left Alcoholics Anonymous /Narcotics Anonymous ( or any 12 step group) or want help leaving it.

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1-800-622-4357

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

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Atheist & religion-free wives, husbands, partners of alcoholics

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Sober Faction

The Satanic Temple

The Satanic Temple Sober Faction provides peer support recovery for addiction free from the pseudoscience and superstitious dogma entrenched in most mainstream programs.