....but I do have experience with Alcoholics Anonymous. I believe they are based upon the same principle, and I have to say, Alcoholics Anonymous' reference to a higher power is code for God. One doesn't have to get very far to understand that. Whenever I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, it felt as if I was stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. It was just a bunch of people, chain drinking coffee, and telling the same sad stories to the same people day after day. I was in treatment at the VA at the time and I convinced my counselor to exempt me from those meetings which I viewed as a 100% waste of time. My rehabilitation consisted of hard work, small peer group meetings, counseling without any references to religion, and a semi controlled environment. It's worked out well for 11 years so far, and I receive all the support I need from my family.
I would suggest exploring non-religious, peer-based alternatives consisting of small group meetings. 8 to 10 people in a group is more intimate, and compelling than any large-scale group.
One question. How does your daughter get through a full day of classes without drinking. If she can do this, she's not an alcoholic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/life/2014/03/28/alcoholics_anonymous_has_a_terrible_success_rate_addiction_expert_finds.html
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"Dr. Lance Dodes is the most recent to wade into this debate in a new book, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry. Dodes combed through more than 50 studies and found that the success rate for Alcoholics Anonymous is between 5 and 10 per cent, which he calls one of the worst in all of medicine.
“I’m not trying to eliminate AA,” says Dodes, the former director of substance abuse treatment at Harvard’s McLean Hospital. “I’m just saying it should be prescribed to that tiny group who can make use of it. It’s terribly harmful when you send 90 per cent of the people for the wrong treatment advice.”
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