Jimbo and Ryan talk alcoholism. Mostly, Ryan shares his story and experience with addiction.
A.A. says, ”Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.”
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I added a clip of Jordan Peterson making a correction of religion and addiction: Peterson is misleading and or mistaken. Spirituality is promising, but not proven. Below is a excerpt from "A focus-group study on spirituality and substance-abuse treatment:"
"Spirituality has been shown to be a significant and independent predictor of recovery and/or improvement in indices of treatment outcome. Levels of spirituality increase between treatment entry and subsequent recovery, and levels of spirituality may be greater in individuals whose recovery is successful compared to those who have relapsed. Length of sobriety has also been positively associated with spirituality, while commitment to a higher power may lessen the severity of relapse episodes. In retrospective studies, recovering addicts frequently reported spirituality as an important component of their recovery efforts and to be helpful in maintaining changes made during treatment. Additionally, spiritually oriented lay programs such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are widely popular, especially in the United States, and although it has been notoriously diffcult to assess the effectiveness of such programs in their naturalistic incarnations, there is some evidence that they are effective."
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