I just got back from a couple meetings in Weho tonight. I definitely think things are changing. There was much less talk of the Steps, Big Book doctrine, mischief, disease and near-death experiences, and there was more talk of fellowship and the common types of problems that everyone experiences. In particular, several people including the speaker talked about using opiates for medical treatment without any significant issues. They used the word ‘disease’ sparingly. They didn’t recount mischief or ‘almost died from my disease’, and the laugh lines were sparser. Of course, “I always thought that drinking and drugs made people more interesting” got the usual round of hee-haws. Continue reading Winds of Change
AA Has Killed Millions!
Steppers are starting to back off the absurd claim that “AA has saved the lives of millions.” Soon they’re going to have to defend their brainwashing suicide cult of powerlessness (and drinking club) against the claim that AA has killed millions. Continue reading AA Has Killed Millions!
A Thomas McLellan – Acclaimed Higher Power of Addiction Science
Every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. Deuteronomy 12:31
A Thomas McLellan was born in New York in 1949 and grew up in an age of rapid advances in science and technology which revealed profound truths about the world and promised to relieve man of suffering, cure his diseases, and even resolve the intractable ideological and religious differences at the root of wars and strife. He earned a PhD in psychology in 1976, and took a job at a Pennsylvania VA to study alcoholism. There he saw first hand the suffering of the alcoholics in his care, but at the same time witnessed the miraculous effects of the 12 Step programs that were at the time the only known effective treatment. Continue reading A Thomas McLellan – Acclaimed Higher Power of Addiction Science
Project ‘Emancipation Proclamation’
The following document was procured from the desk of Stanford psychiatrist Dr. Keith Humphreys by an undercover AddictionMyth operative posing as a patient seeking treatment for a substance use disorder.
Project ‘Emancipation Proclamation’
A Progress Report on Our Plan to Take Over the World
Dear Mr. Soros,
The following is a progress report as of November 2014 on our top secret plan to take over the world and enslave the masses. Continue reading Project ‘Emancipation Proclamation’
Reunited
Because Addiction
Regardless of whether addiction is a brain disease or a learning disorder, addicts are compelled to use ever increasing amounts of drugs and then one day they accidentally take too much or combine with other drugs and die. This is the tragedy of addiction. Is it true?
Hardly! In fact, overdose is only loosely coupled with addiction. Continue reading Because Addiction
Some Roles Can Be Deadly
What makes a great actor? One important skill is the ability to believe the part. Actors sometimes practice roles for months to make their performance more authentic. However, what happens when an actor plays a drug addict? What happens when they go around trying to convince themselves they have a disease of the brain that can kill them?
Stomp the Steppers
Are there steppers on your favorite message board? Just post the link in a comment below and we’ll head over to stomp them out!
Some recent stepper stomps:
http://www.thefix.com/content/recovery-high
http://www.people.com/article/skye-mccole-bartusiak-cause-of-death
NIAAA Addiction Expert Dr. George Koob Maintains Silence
The venerable science journal Nature recently published NIAAA Director Dr George Koob‘s beautifully illustrated science fiction fantasy about drug addiction:
Nature: The Development and Maintenance of Drug Addiction
His esteemed colleague Dr. Donald F. Klein, D.Sc. responded:
My experience with human heroin addiction stems from 1953 to 1955. Having one whole year as a psychiatric resident at Creedmoor State Hospital Continue reading NIAAA Addiction Expert Dr. George Koob Maintains Silence
NA Thug Johnny Panic Threatens to Shoot AddictionMyth!
NA thug Johnny Panic was furious at AddictionMyth for exposing the truth about his butt buddy Dan Genis. So he ‘followed’ AddictionMyth on twitter and changed his photo to a ‘Gun & Skull’ as a threat to the blogger. He then tweeted: Just watched “how to get away with murder” it could easily become my favorite new show.
Continue reading NA Thug Johnny Panic Threatens to Shoot AddictionMyth!
AA Threatens AddictionMyth on The Fix!
The Best Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder Your Addiction Counselor Isn’t Telling You
AddictionMyth
Your RELIGION teaches that drinking causes crimes, thus one must be punished for drinking. That is a RELIGIOUS belief. Again, just punish for the crimes. And yes the laws are precisely what is at issue here. J has a problem that JUDGES are sentencing people to AA. And I’d agree that’s just wrong. But you are so blinded by your fanaticism for your religion that you cannot see it.
sonny
Sorry, but my religion and my drinking coexist very amicably. I guess some people aren’t as fortunate. I wish you the best. Be careful. Continue reading AA Threatens AddictionMyth on The Fix!
Psycho Stepper: A Chat with Drug Czar Michael Botticelli
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) demands the immediate retraction and termination of your irresponsible and dangerous anti-AA propaganda website (‘AddictionMyth’) claiming that all alcoholism and drug addiction is completely fake and all addicts are liars and that AA is a ‘blood cult of mischief’ and a ‘drinking club’ and a ‘sin mortgaging scam’ and brainwashes innocent people to kill themselves. We have received numerous complaints from the public claiming that people have seen your website and refused life saving treatment, and many of those people have overdosed and died. You have completely ignored our numerous complaints and now we must take decisive action to shut you down. Continue reading Psycho Stepper: A Chat with Drug Czar Michael Botticelli