Defending Alcoholics Anonymous

The Alcoholics Anonymous subreddit tends to get the same questions asked over and over again, so, since it’s considered rude to refer people...

I came across an article which criticizes AA using the in my opinion now-debunked 2014 book by Dodes . I have already dealt with why the Dod...

  Back in the mid-2010s, there were a number of anti-AA websites online: http://morerevealed.com http://Stinkin-ThinkIn.com   http://orange-...

I initially ignored this article , since it was published by one FilterMag, not a particularly mainstream magazine, and one which a fellow W...

Recently, someone asked how the “5% success rate” stat was made up. Here is my answer , edited to give more information and context. To summ...

While there hasn’t been any mainstream press criticizing AA’s efficacy recently, I think, while Dodes’s figures are now outdated and discred...

I have found other criticism of AA in the mainstream press over the last year which I should address here in this blog. Naltrexone redux A r...