{"id":23386,"date":"2025-04-09T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=23386"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:22:33","slug":"23386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/23386\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51zui4t-K5L._SL1200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"447\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Sober-Truth-Debunking-Programs\/dp\/0807033154\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\"><strong>The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry: Dodes, Lance, Dodes, Zachary: 9780807033159: Amazon.com: Books<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An expos\u00e9 of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry\u2014and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.<\/strong><br><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><br>AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the evidence shows that AA has only a 5\u201310 percent success rate\u2014hardly better than no treatment at all. Despite this, doctors, employers, and judges regularly refer addicted people to treatment programs and rehab facilities based on the 12-step model.<br><br>In&nbsp;<em>The Sober Truth<\/em>, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dr. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases. He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program\u2019s overall success.<br><br>But<em>&nbsp;The Sober Truth<\/em>&nbsp;is more than a book about addiction. It is also a book about science and how and why AA and rehab became so popular, despite the discouraging data. Dr. Dodes explores the entire story of AA\u2019s rise, from its origins in early fundamentalist religious and mystical beliefs to its present-day place of privilege in politics and media.<br><br><em>The Sober Truth<\/em>&nbsp;includes true stories from Dr. Dodes\u2019s thirty-five years of clinical practice, as well as firsthand accounts submitted by addicts through an open invitation on the&nbsp;<em>Psychology Today<\/em>&nbsp;website. These stories vividly reveal the experience of walking the steps and attending some of the nation\u2019s most famous rehabilitation centers.<br><br><em>The Sober Truth<\/em>&nbsp;builds a powerful response to the monopoly of the 12-step program and explodes the myth that these programs offer an acceptable or universal solution to the deeply personal problem of addiction. This bookoffers new and actionable information for addicts, their families, and medical providers, and lays out better ways to understand addiction for those seeking a more effective and compassionate approach to this treatable problem.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-heart-of-addiction\/201403\/the-sober-truth-about-aa-and-the-rehab-industry?fbclid=IwY2xjawJjw4xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHp-tcn65h1GhC7qTCOCfBlmJ5tLVGVQ_5aFwmigq0mfDOZZqGvSV5gryTKBF_aem_VRp8If2HyTO1Cozz3Efn5A\">The Sober Truth About AA and the Rehab Industry | Psychology Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry: Dodes, Lance, Dodes, Zachary: 9780807033159: Amazon.com: Books An expos\u00e9 of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry\u2014and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.&nbsp;AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/23386\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24,139,76,134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning-ministry","category-alcohol","category-apologetics","category-science-or-knowledge","category-truthdefended","category-wolf-watch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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