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http://www.rational.org/

Why Self-Recovery?

Jack Trimpey, ©2003

It is not well-known that self-recovery is commonplace. For ages, seriously 
addicted people have simply quit the use of alcohol and other drugs and then 
gotten on with their lives. Today, millions of seriously addicted people 
simply get fed up with the results of their addictions, make a decision to 
abstain no matter what, and move on to discover new and better 
satisfactions.

Free from the undertow of addiction, these independent people immediately 
feel better and do better in every respect. Their problems, including the 
problems they thought they were "medicating" with alcohol or other drugs, 
fade or vanish, and the anguish of addiction is soon covered by the sands of 
time. Freedom and dignity lost to addiction is finally regained.

These self-recovered people greatly outnumber the combined membership of the 
support group networks, but in our society, they are overlooked as if they 
don't exist. Rational Recovery identifies the self-recovered as a national 
treasure, for they obviously know something that is more important than all 
the scientific research ever done on the subjects of addiction and recovery. 
The self-recoved are the real experts on addiction recovery. They are the 
inspiration and the mentors of Rational Recovery.

The American Addiction Tragedy

It is tragic that the precious wisdom of the self-recovered has been 
obscured and replaced by the collective voice of those who remain in the 
state of addiction. They are people who have not recovered, but are only "in 
recovery," engaged in a peculiar lifestyle that provides social support for 
tentative, one-day-at-a-time sobriety, and chastises more ambitious 
commitments. They know nothing of true recovery, have no information on how 
to abstain from alcohol and drugs, and they actively prevent members from 
summarily quitting and moving on. Of course, I am speaking of Alcoholics 
Anonymous (AA) and the other 12-step organizations that pose as solutions to 
problems which they later admit they cannot resolve.





>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>>
>>Right.  But there is an alternative group that doesn't force a  "higher 
>>power" down your throat.  I think it's called "Rational  Recovery."
>
>
>If only addictions were rational, one might look forward to a rational 
>recovery.
>
>If only LIFE were rational . . . .

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