Whats the Difference in AA & SMART Programs?
Question by NARS&MAC: whats the difference in AA & SMART programs?
regarding alcoholism, personal responsability and attending the meetings?
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Answer by raysny
AA teaches people that they are incapable of quitting without direct intervention from God. Members talk about responsibility, but then blame their addiction on having a ‘disease’.
SMART is a self-empowering addiction recovery support group that teaches tools for addiction recovery based on the latest scientific research.
http://www.smartrecovery.org/
The most important factors in quitting are motivation and determination, if you have those almost any method will work, if you don’t nothing will.
The NIAAA’s 2001–2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions interviewed over 43,000 people. Using the criteria for alcohol dependence found in the DSM-IV, they found:
“About 75 percent of persons who recover from alcohol dependence do so without seeking any kind of help, including specialty alcohol (rehab) programs and AA. Only 13 percent of people with alcohol dependence ever receive specialty alcohol treatment.””
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