Links
by A. Orange
Non-cult Pro-Recovery
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http://www.rrci.net/index.html#top
== Recovery Resource Center
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LifeRing Secular Recovery (LSR)
http://www.unhooked.com/index.htm -- LifeRing
LSR is a non-religious self-help
recovery organization for individuals who choose abstinence from
alcohol and other addictive drugs, or who are in relationships where
chemical dependency is a problem. The basic philosophy of LifeRing
Secular Recovery is summarized in the Three "S" -- Sobriety,
Secularity, Self-Help.
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http://groups.msn.com/X-STEPPERS/welcome.msnw
This is an ex-stepper group on MSN.
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Moderation Management
http://www.moderation.org/
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Quitnet -- Quit smoking -- Defeat "the Nicodemon"
http://quitnet.org
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Rational Recovery, Jack Trimpey's web site
http://www.rational.org/
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Recovery Coast to Coast -- KLFE Talk Radio 1590AM out of Seattle,
2 hours of recovery talk nightly.
http://www.recoverycoasttocoast.org/
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SMART: Self Management And Recovery Training.
http://www.smartrecovery.org/
Rational, sane, common-sense recovery techniques.
Based on Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, the brainchild
of Dr. Albert Ellis. Also see
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SOS: Secular Organizations for Sobriety, a.k.a. "Save Our Selves".
http://www.sossobriety.org/
SOS is an alternative recovery method for those alcoholics or drug
addicts who are uncomfortable with the spiritual or superstitious
content of widely available 12-Step programs.
SOS takes a reasonable, secular approach
to recovery and maintains that sobriety is a separate issue from
religion or spirituality. SOS credits the individual for achieving and
maintaining his or her own sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher
Power." SOS respects recovery in any form regardless of the path by
which it is achieved. It is not opposed to or in competition with any
other recovery programs.
Also see:
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http://www.unhooked.com/ -- Unhooked
Especially see:
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WFS: Women For Sobriety,
http://www.womenforsobriety.org/ --
WFS is the oldest -- founded in 1975 -- of the modern (non-12-Step) programs,
and is dedicated to helping women overcome alcoholism and other addictions.
WFS accepts the disease model and is an abstinence program. The "New
Life" program helps women achieve sobriety and sustain ongoing
recovery.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12-Step-free --
Self-described as: 'This is a large yahoo group of ex-AA and ex-"XA" (meaning any
"anonymous" program based on the 12 steps originally created by AA)
people. It is very open to debate and free thinking, but it's main
point is for those needing to be free of the 12 steps.'
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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EFTCoaa
Self-described as:
'This group is called Escaping From The Cult of AA.
Despite only one membership "drive", it has
continuously grown over a year's time.'
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http://www.baldwinresearch.com/index.cfm
== Baldwin Research Institute -- sane, scientific, non-12-Step recovery options
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http://www.wglasser.com/ -- The William Glasser Institute --
Founded in 1967 by Dr. William Glasser, the Institute is a tax-exempt
foundation for training in the behavioral and educational sciences.
http://www.wglasser.com/whatisct.htm -- What Is Choice Theory?
Choice Theory® is the basis for all programs taught by the Institute.
It states that all we do is behave, that almost all behavior is chosen,
and that we are driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs:
survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.
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http://users.erols.com/ksciacca/
== Dual Diagnosis Website, Kathleen Sciacca
Kathleen Sciacca is the author of works like
"MIDAA service manual for mental illness, drug addiction and alcoholism"
and
"Integrated treatment for mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism (MIDAA) across Alaska".
Ms. Sciacca is former director of a New York Statewide MICAA training site for program and staff development.
Miscellaneous Recovery Aids
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http://www.practicalrecovery.com/
-- Practical Recovery -- alternatives to the 12-Step madness
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http://www.behaviortherapy.com/whatworks.htm
== Statistics on the success rates of various treatment programs.
Notice how "Twelve-step facilitation" is so far down the list
that you have to look for it. It's number 37 out of 48.
Also notice how 12-Step treatment has a negative success rating
-- the "Cumulative Evidence Score" is a minus 82, while
the best treatments are rated positive 390 and 189.
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http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh291/41-48.htm
== National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health,
on mandated treatment.
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http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/index.html
http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/53/1/What-works-A-summary-of-alcohol-treatment-research/Page1.html
== The same statistics in a different format
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http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/index.html
== Alcohol Problems and Solutions
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http://www.jointogether.org/
== Join Together, "advancing effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment".
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http://www.doctordeluca.com/
-- Dr. DeLuca's web site. Lots of stuff about addiction, pain, alternative recovery methods,
harm reduction, moderation,
the ineffectiveness of A.A., the so-called "war on drugs", and much more...
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-19940901-000025&page=1
== Psychology Today magazine, article on "Back From the Drink, Treatments for alcoholism that work."
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http://www.recoverydirect.org
-- A Catch-All Recovery Directory -- links of all types
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http://www.123greetings.com/birthday/sobriety_birthday/ -- Sobriety birthday cards.
Kind of schmalzy, but what the hell. Congratulating and encouraging a loved one who
has been off of drugs and alcohol for a year or two never hurt.
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The AMA: Does Coffee Prevent Cirrhosis of the Liver?
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The New York Times: Coffee as Health Food?
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http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/
== Another guy in recovery with some good sensible things to say.
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http://www.reachingupforair.com/
== Stories of addiction and recovery
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http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com -- Music Therapy and Using Music in Psychology
Self-Description: "Examines the power of using popular music, something
people already listen to, as a way for people to express their
feelings. Includes examples of therapeutic messages in popular music
as well as original music by Freudian Slip, therapeutic rock band."
== Just wacky enough that it might help.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5202414.stm --
BBC -- Heavy drinkers helped by computer
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http://www.alcoholism-revealed.com -- another approach to quitting drinking.
Sells an electronic book.
Organizations
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AAS == American Association of Suicidology
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ACLU -- American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/
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Action for Smoking and Health
http://www.ash.org
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Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle
http://depts.washington.edu/abrc/
-- included information from G. Alan Marlatt, PhD
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Alcoholism links
http://www.alcoholism.net/
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American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org
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American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org
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American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/
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AMA = American Medical Association
www.ama-assn.org
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AMA, critical of:
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http://www.healthe-livingnews.com/articles/
american_medical_association_sorbid_history.html
-- Healthe-Living News -- A sordid history of the AMA
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http://www.newstarget.com/008845.html
-- Newstarget -- What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history
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http://www.newstarget.com/z008845.html
-- Newstarget -- More of What the American
Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history, including
the story of Morris Fishbein, the con artist leader of the AMA from
1924 to 1949.
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http://www.rense.com/general19/enemy.htm
-- Morris Fishbein -- AMA Enemy Of American Health, and
Royal Rife
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http://www.illuminati-news.com/morris-fishbein.htm
-- Morris Fishbein, AMA Enemy of American Health
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APA == American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psych.org
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State
http://www.au.org
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
http://atf.treas.gov/
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Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
http://www.caas.brown.edu/
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CDC == Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
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http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/
-- Prevention
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http://www.pandemicflu.gov/
-- Pandemic flu, avian flu, and seasonal flu are not the same thing
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Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov
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Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov
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http://www.guidestar.org/ --
database of non-profit organizations. Good for checking out fraudulent non-profits,
and seeing how much they pay their executives.
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National Cancer Institute
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov
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National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org
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National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information
http://www.health.org
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National Institutes of Health (a government agency).
http://www.nih.gov/
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NIAAA ==
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the
National Institutes of Health.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
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http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/RelatedWebsites
-- the web page where this taxpayer-supported government agency is supposed to
be giving you valid, honest information about the various aids to recovery that are available.
They list 12-Step cult-oriented web sites, but do not list any of the non-cult
alternatives like SMART or Rational Recovery.
Practical Recovery
reports that they have repeated asked the NIAAA to change this page, but they
refuse to do so.
Why is that? Are the authorities at the NIAAA taking bribes, or are they members of the cult?
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NIDA == National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.nida.nih.gov/
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National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/
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Office of National Drug Control Policy
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
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Public Television
http://www.pbs.org/
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Quack Watch -- information on quack doctors and quack cures
http://www.quackwatch.org/
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Quack and Health Fraud Information:
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/fraud.html
== Fraud & Quackery: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine
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http://www.csicop.org/si/9709/beyer.html
== Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;
US Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.samhsa.gov/
- Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT)
http://www.stat.org
- Tobacco BBS
http://www.tobacco.org
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Tobacco -- Ohio State Law School --
"Fit for Its Ordinary Purpose? Tobacco, Fast Food, and The Implied Warranty of Merchantability" --
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/lawjournal/issues/volume63/number4/crawford.pdf
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US Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/
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WHO -- World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/
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http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/who_lexicon/en/
== Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms published by the World Health Organization
About Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-Step "Recovery"
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Support_Groups/
Twelve_Step/Grievances/
-- DMOZ Open Directory Project -- Grievances against Twelve-Step organizations
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Support_Groups/
Opposing_Views/Twelve_Step
-- DMOZ Open Directory Project, Society: Support Groups: Opposing Views: Twelve Step
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/
Alcoholism/Support_Groups/Alcoholics_Anonymous/History/
-- DMOZ Open Directory Project -- A.A. history
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/
Alcoholism/Support_Groups/Alcoholics_Anonymous/
-- DMOZ Open Directory Project -- A.A. references, a large list of links
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/
Alcoholism/Support_Groups/Chats_and_Forums/
-- DMOZ chat support group
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http://www.aadeprogramming.com/ -- AA Deprogramming, one of the first and
best anti-AA web sites.
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http://alcoholism.about.com/ -- Much good stuff.
Especially see:
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http://gsowatch.aamo.info/tax/index.htm -- A.A. GSO watch
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Court cases that declared Alcoholics Anonymous to be engaging in religious activites,
or to be a religious program:
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http://www.unhooked.com/sep/warnerny.htm
== Warner v. Orange County
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http://www.unhooked.com/sep/tennessee.htm
== Evans v. Tennessee Board of Paroles
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http://www.unhooked.com/sep/griffin.htm
== Griffin v. Coughlin
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http://pub.bna.com/cl/994013.htm
== Rauser v. Horn
- Also see:
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/
== Supreme Court decisions on religion
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http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=12 -- Penn & Teller TV Show.
Penn and Teller recently did their own investigation of AA's effectiveness.
Includes streaming video.
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http://www.recovery.org/ --
Alcoholics Anonymous Information
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http://alcoholicsanonymous.9f.com/spirituality.htm
-- A.A. "spirituality" -- A.A. legal and corporate actions over the years
-- how A.A. is suing anybody, even A.A. members, to get more money
out of their old books that are out of copyright
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http://troyrecoveryrantings.blogspot.com/
== Troy's blog, which gives us some clear thinking about 12-Step recovery
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http://aabbsg.de/ -- A German "A.A. watchdog" web site
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http://12schrittefrei.de/ -- Detlef Sax's 12-Step Free, in German, English, and Swedish.
(There are many good items in English that you can read even if you don't speak German.
Click the language selection in the upper left-hand corner of the home page to switch
the web site to English.)
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http://www.noart.de/ambrosia/index.html -- More of Detlef Sax's stuff from Germany.
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http://www.heise.nu/AALawsuit/
-- More on the A.A. headquarters suing foreign A.A. members for making their own translations
of the Big Book and selling them ultra-cheap or giving them away for free,
thus treatening the profits of the A.A. corporation in New York.
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http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gator/aa/index.html --
Peter Daum: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Alcoholics Anonymous
(A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous).
Peter Daum is not an ex-member. It's a scientific work, so it's from another point of view.
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http://www.geocities.com/drugsandalcoholinfo/
webpagesandpapers/othergorupsvsaa.htm
-- article on alternatives to A.A.
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http://sheilakennedy.net/content/view/599/29/
-- Sheila Suess Kennedy, J.D., Assistant Professor, Law & Public Policy, writes about
"Snake Oil, Ethics and the First Amendment: What's a Profession to do?"
"...unvalidated treatments (UTs) are therapies for physical or mental
health problems that are employed in the absence of empirical or
theoretical support for their effectiveness, despite substantial evidence
that they are worthless or harmful."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-XlZdhlOE
-- James G.'s anti-AA video, "Question Authority". Quite good.
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http://www.blamedenial.co.uk/
-- James G.'s web site describing his experiences in the 12-Step cult. Very good.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSNnlIk7Po
== James G on the HBO "Addiction" series
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http://freedomfrom12steps.blogspot.com/
== An anti-A.A. web site that covers a whole lot of issues.
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A new web site about the Midtown Groups of Washington DC:
http://thetruthaboutmidtown.com/
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Also see these items about the Midtown A.A. Groups of Washington DC:
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Washington DC has a large A.A. group for young people that specializes in the sexual exploitation
of under-age girls by old sponsors.
Check it out.
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Newsweek magazine published an article:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=137850505&blogID=258918827
== A 15-year-old girl is told to cut off all communications with people outside of A.A.,
and stop taking medications for a bipolar disorder, and is encouraged
to have sex with MUCH older A.A. men.
- Also see:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368218/site/newsweek/
== where MSNBC has reprinted the article
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Midtown Group banned from another church in Washington DC.
See the story here.
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A girl ended up in the hospital
after she was told to have sex with the male cult members and stop taking her doctor-prescribed
psychiatric medications.
See story here.
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A policeman's wife says that she was
encouraged to cheat on her husband and to divorce him.
See the story here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSslAhuGu8&search=12%20step == Here is another hilarious
spoof of 12-Step Recovery -- "Pigs Anonymous", a 12-Step program for male chauvinist pigs
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http://lakeportna.homestead.com/NApolice.html == Another spoof, the N.A. police,
enforcers of the faith
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Blogs and articles on A.A.:
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72444
== Indy Media article on A.A. -- "Alcoholism: Busting the AA Monopoly"
- Dr. Mark Dombeck on www.mentalhelp.net:
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Part 1 -- Alcoholics Anonymous is a Cult?
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Part 2 -- A Better Meeting
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http://www.creative-personal-growth.com/alcohol-abuse.html
== "It is impossible for an intelligent person to get sober in A.A., or so I'm told."
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http://13thstepping.blogspot.com
== "After the 12 Steps, the hardest step is breaking free."
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http://www.archivesinternational.org -- A.A. historical archives, a bunch of good documents
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http://beliefnet.com/index/index_20105.html --
Beliefnet
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/
== Apologetics Research Resources on religious movements, cults, sects, world religions and related issues
-- Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices --
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http://apologeticsindex.org/a28.html
== Alcoholics Anonymous...
'... "At an AA meeting, you can talk about anything else, but not Jesus Christ,"
Baker says. "I'd be mocked when I talked about my higher power."'
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http://www.raptureready.com/resource/hunt/dh2.html -- a Christian criticism of A.A.
that declares that A.A. theology is anti-Christian
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http://www.truthaboutaddictions.org/articles.htm
== a Baptist ministry that denounces A.A. on religious grounds.
(I don't agree with all of his statements, but they are interesting.)
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/rw/ofcourse.htm
-- Alcoholics Anonymous: Of Course It's a Cult!
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http://americanatheist.org/spr97/T1/piety.html
-- "Piety Gets You Sobriety?" -- A criticism of the A.A.
doctrine that slavish devotion to the A.A. religion will get you sober
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http://www.aahorror.net/Contents.htm
-- Recovery Liberation Front
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http://www.peele.net/ -- Stanton Peele's web site. Stanton loves to skewer A.A. myths.
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http://www.morerevealed.com/
-- Ken Ragge's web site. Very critical of A.A..
You can also get Ken Ragge's books, The Real AA, and
More Revealed, for free there, as well as
Alcoholics Anonymous:
Cult or Cure? by Charles Bufe, and
Rebecca Fransway's AA Horror Stories.
Good reading. Recommended. Grab and read the stuff.
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http://www.morerevealed.com/articles/ther.htm
-- "Therapeutic groups versus 12-Step groups: An analysis of the AA prototype",
By Cathleen A. Mann
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http://www.morerevealed.com/alkiehorror.jsp -- Devin's Alkie Horror Picture Show -- it's a hoot.
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http://www.morerevealed.com/archives.jsp -- Archive of documents, including the legal
decisions that declared that A.A. was engaging in religious ceremonies,
and that sentencing someone to go to A.A. meetings was unconstitutional.
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http://www.morerevealed.com/library.jsp -- online library of books:
- More Revealed : A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps
aka The Real AA: Behind the Myth of Twelve Step Recovery,
by Ken Ragge
- Twelve-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal and Abuse in NA, AA
and 12-Step Treatment, edited Rebecca Fransway, Ed.
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?, by Charles Bufe
- Resisting 12-Twelve Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participitation in AA, NA,
or 12-Step Treatment, by Stanton Peele and Charles Bufe with Archie Brodsky
- Saints Run Mad, by Marjorie Harrison
- Soul Surgery; Some Thoughts on Incisive Personal Work,
by Howard Arnold Walter, M.A.
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http://www.seesharppress.com/ -- the See Sharp Press, Charles Bufe's press.
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http://www.schaler.net/ -- Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler is the author of the book
"Addiction is a Choice".
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http://www.szasz.com/ -- Thomas Szasz, M.D., web site,
"Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility". Another believer in rationality
and sanity in our drug and alcohol policies.
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http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/cbook/chap6.html
== Herbert Fingarette, "Why We Should Reject The Disease Concept of Alcoholism"
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http://www.thearidsite.org/
-- more collected anti-AA material
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http://www.alcoholicshelp.info/
-- More generic (non-cult) information about alcoholism
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http://thetyee.ca/Series/2006/06/26/Addiction/ -- Three interesting articles about addiction
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http://www.recoveryfree.com/pages/1/index.htm -- RecoveryFree.Com, how to
overcome addictions
"without rehabs, recovery counselors, AA, sponsors and meetings for life."
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http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-dry-piper.htm
-- Modern Drunkard Magazine, and Bill Wilson, "The Dry Piper".
This has to be a spoof, but it's a beauty.
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http://www.geocities.com/rationaldl/ == Don Lee's criticism of A.A.
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http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id409/pg1/ --
Article: "Recovery Nation: Is AA Threatening Your Freedom?" by Cletus Nelson
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http://www.bee.net/cardigan/attic/guest09.htm
-- The Twelve Step Cult by Mitch Bailey
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http://www.geocities.com/drugsandalcoholinfo/
webpagesandpapers/mindcontroltactics.htm --
Mind Control Tactics Of Alcoholics Anonymous by Devin Sexson
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http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/crit12steps.html
-- Critiques of the 12-Step Programs.
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http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/
-- a detailed analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous
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http://www.roizen.com/ron/mann.htm --
Exploding the myth that Marty Mann learned that "alcoholism is a disease" from
Bill Wilson, the Big Book, or A.A..
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http://www.angelfire.com/journal/forcedaa/ -- About forced A.A. attendance.
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http://www.drugtext.org/ -- dedicated to dispensing true information
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http://www.moonmac.com/Interesting_Disgusting.html
-- various items of drug and recovery interest, including Paul Roasberry's essay:
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http://www.dickb.com/index.shtml -- the web site of Dick B.
Very pro-A.A. and pro-Oxford Group, he interprets history from a religious viewpoint,
but still, he is a good source of historical information.
Unlike Bill Wilson, Dick B. writes mostly accurate history.
Also see more history at:
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http://www.dickb.com/archives/history.shtml
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http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=601 == article on the early A.A. success rate
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Also see:
http://casa-12steps.blogspot.com/
-- Dick B. wrote a long article about how the current A.A. leadership is
censoring information about Clarence Snyder and his Cleveland, Ohio A.A. group.
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/110499/news.cb.chestnut.shtml
-- Anti-AA: Jeffrey Schaler's college dumped him from the faculty
because of his views on addiction and AA...
that Alcoholics Anonymous bears more than a passing resemblance to a cult.
The A.A. true believers could not tolerate him after he published his
book
Addiction is a Choice.
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Talbott Treatment Center case
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http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/12/07/news/120806fzschrantz.tx
== A Fayetteville, Arkansas lawsuit where a woman sued a judge for
sentencing her to meetings of a religion -- Narcotics Anonymous.
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http://www.geocities.com/sanegallery/ --
Michael's anti-AA artwork
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http://www.angelfire.com/blog/aaacomix/ -- The lighter side of recovery, anti-AA comics.
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http://www.snakelyone.com/12step.htm
-- More anti-AA humor.
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http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/
-- Lip Balm Anonymous, a priceless spoof of recovery nonsense
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
== another spoof of A.A. Especially see A.O. -- Alcoholics Oblivious
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http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
-- a great spoof of religious fanatics
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Sally Satel, M.D.:
- How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
http://www.sallysatelmd.com/
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New York Times: For Addicts, Firm Hand Can Be the Best Medicine
-- promotes the idea that addicts
are an inferior subspecies -- fundamentally different from "normal" people,
and that good fascist discipline and lots of A.A. meetings will fix them.
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=55515784&blogID=256628757
== a spoof anti-AA diatribe that has some truth to it.
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http://www.staticfiends.com/suburbia/viewtopic.php?p=15247#15247
== Bad drug tests threaten us all. Don Bolles, drummer for the legendary punk band the Germs,
got busted because a bottle of Dr. Bronner's Soap tested positive for the date-rape drug GHB,
which the soap does not contain.
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=5742532&blogID=252788641
== "Alcoholics Anonymous is a Cult"
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http://dontyouhateconnor.blogspot.com/2007/04/alcoholics-anonymous.html
== "Don't You Hate Connor" -- comments on A.A.
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http://standardbreak.livejournal.com/67364.html
== anti-AA, pro-AA debate blog page
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http://alabelforartists.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-work-to-be-done-by-kurt-vonnegut.html
== Kurt Vonnegut on A.A.
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http://sliversoftruth.blogspot.com/2007/04/extracted-from-man-without-country.html
== More Kurt Vonnegut
-
http://humor.allcrazyjokes.com/index.php/36/internet-addicts-anonymous-internet-addiction/
== Internet Addicts Anonymous -- a spoof
-
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Alcoholics_Anonymous
== Encyclopedia Dramatica, spoof of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Heart of the Beast -- Pro-A.A.
-
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/
-- ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - OFFICIAL WEB SITE
-
http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.com/ --
This is merely an alias for the official Alcoholics Anonymous web site -- you get redirected to
the one above.
(It is now a Dead Link; the Domain Name is owned by A.A. but not used.)
-
http://gso.org/ -- this domain name used to be a web site that was critical of the GSO,
the General Service Organization branch of Alcoholics Anonymous, but A.A. lawyers strong-armed
the domain name away from its critics, and now it's another alias for A.A.
-
http://www.aa.org/ -- another alias for A.A.
-
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.com/
-- another alias for A.A.
[Dead Link]
-
http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.com/
-- another alias for A.A.
-
http://www.aagrapevine.org/ -- The monthly magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous
-
http://www.anonpress.org/ --
Online AA books, book ordering, intergroup phone numbers etc. Home of
e-AA: an electronic reference to Alcoholics Anonymous.
-
http://www.daily-reflections.com/
== Daily Reflections -- Pseudo-spiritual ravings of William Griffith Wilson,
one corn-pone homilie for every day of the year
-
NCADD: the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence -- the A.A. front group
http://www.ncadd.org/
-
http://www.ncadd-middlesex.com/static_index.htm
-- The NCADD of Middlesex County
-
http://www.ncadd-middlesex.com/donors.htm
== Corporate Donors to the NCADD of Middlesex County,
like Johnson and Johnson, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
(It's a goofy web page -- you have to click on "Corporate Donors" to see anything.)
You might want to write to those corporate donors and ask
them why they support quack medicine like 12-Step treatment.
Especially ask them whether they test the efficacy of their own medicines the same way as they
tested the A.A. 12-Step treatment.
I mean, they did test the A.A. 12-Step treatment and see how well it actually works
before they financed its promotion, didn't they?
UPDATE: 19 October 2006: Hmmm... The Bristol-Myers Squibb credit has disappeared. Now the
NCADD is supported by Frank's Pizza.
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ASAM == American Society of Addiction Medicine -- the A.A. front group that exists to
promote 12-Step treatment of alcoholism and addictions to doctors.
http://www.asam.org
-
http://www.csam.org/
== the Canadian equivalent of ASAM
-
NAADAC -- National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
-- an A.A. front group for "counselors" that campaigns for the government and
health insurance companies to pay for more 12-Step indoctrination of
alcoholics and addicts
http://www.naadac.org/
-
http://www.eap-association.org/index.html
-- this is allegedly The International Employee Assistance Program Association.
(That terminology, "Employee Assistance",
is code-speak for "shove all drinking and drugging employees into
a 12-Step quack medicine program.")
Their web site is so messed up that it looks like they are all stoned out of their gourds
on something or other.
-
http://rehabcentreinfo.com/
-- Public Relations fluff intended to fool people into believing that
"treatment works".
-
DATOS --
http://www.datos.org/ -- a source for faked success rates for drug
and alcohol treatment programs. The web site features a bunch of fluff
and bar graphs showing that "treatment reduces usage".
The problem is, they do not reveal when or how the measurements and
surveying were done. Nor do they reveal
how they cherry-picked
their patients or "graduates".
So the reported results are actually meaningless -- just some eye-wash
intended to fool funding agencies into giving them some more money.
-
http://www.nationalinterventionreferral.org/
-- National Intervention Referral.
This web site will find some strong-arm thugs for you,
to kidnap or force a loved one
into a so-called "treatment center", where people
get 28-day long Alcoholics Anonymous indoctrination sessions at a cost
of only $10,000 to $30,000.
-
SAMHDA --
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/
-- another database of treatment studies and outcomes.
Read with caution.
-
AA History:
http://www.aahistory.com/
-
http://www.recoveryresources.org/ == Recovery Resources, the pro-A.A. party line
-
http://www.recoveryresources.org/oxford.html == a sanitized history of the involvement
of A.A. with the Oxford Group
-
http://www.mensworkshop.org/
== Atlanta Men's Workshop -- another totally A.A. organization that is "not affiliated with nor endorsed by
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services".
-
http://thetruthaboutmidtown.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=2
== The Truth About Midtown. This is a pro-AA web site that condemns the Midtown Group of Washington DC,
which is a corrupt group that specializes in seducing and raping underage girls, and telling mental
patients to stop taking their psychiatric medications.
The creators of this web site want to imply that the rest of A.A. is great, and only this group is bad.
-
http://www.aa-uk.org.uk/alcoholics-anonymous-reviews/2005/04/dangerously-liquid-world.html
== British A.A. reviewing Mathew J. Raphael's biography of Bill Wilson
-
Chats and Forums:
-
http://www.na.org/index.htm
-- Narcotics Anonymous
-
http://www.ca.org/ --
Self-described as "Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their
experience, strength and hope with each other so that they may solve
their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction."
-
http://www.al-anon.org/ -- Al-Anon
-
http://www.al-anon.org/alateen.html -- Alateen
-
http://www.diabeticsanonymous.org/ -- Diabetics Anonymous
-
http://www.dualdiagnosis.org/ -- Dual Diagnosis Anonymous
-
http://www.draonline.org/ -- DRA, Dual Recovery Anonymous
-
http://www.hcvanonymous.com/ -- HCVA, Hepatitis C Virus Anonymous
-
http://www.sanonymous.org/ -- S/A, Schizophrenics Anonymous
-
http://www.aa-intergroup.org/index.html
-- This is the home page for the Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous
-
http://open-mind.org/Alcohol.htm
-- Self-described as "Extensive resources for those in or seeking recovery from and/or
information regarding alcoholism or alcohol abuse, as well as for family & friends."
-
http://AAbibliography.com/ -- a web site dedicated to A.A. history and relevant
information. Very pro-A.A., but
still interesting.
-
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/divinity.040.con.html
-- Guide to the Henry Burt Wright Papers, Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections.
More information about Henry B. Wright.
-
http://www.silkworth.net/ -- more A.A. history, not entirely objective...
-
http://www.psywww.com/psyrelig/james/toc.htm -- Dr. Silkworth
-
http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/ -- more A.A. history, good stuff, many historical articles.
-
http://www.barefootsworld.net/
-- historical A.A. information, like bogus success statistics:
-
http://www.a-1associates.com/AA/ -- the West Baltimore Group of A.A.
-
http://hindsfoot.org/
-- More A.A. history
-
http://hindsfoot.org/kBS5.html
-
http://www.stepnahead.com/
-- Wayne B.'s sect
-
http://www.stepnahead.com/OrderForm.htm
-
http://www.aaprimarypurpose.org/
-- "AA Primary Purpose"
-
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2973/index11.html --
252 AA Slogans (I think
my list is longer.)
-
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Addictions/
rawpsych/recovery/chapter_8.htm
-- Pro-AA nonsense, "I have the right to take my will back..."
-
http://members.aol.com/GlennS1956/index.html
-- Glenn S.'s enthusiastic promotion of Narcotics Anonymous
-
http://www.yourdailywalk.org/
-- Allegedly "Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds", including,
"12 Steps Based on Eastern Wisdom"
-
http://www.recoveryrealm.com/Default.aspx?tabid=108
== Recovery Realm -- lots of links to recover-related issues, and forum and chat rooms.
Pro-A.A.
-
http://www.legacyaa.com/index.php
== Forth Worth Texas AA, "Legacy Group".
-
http://www.legacyaa.com/articles/dangers_Success.htm
== "Alcoholics Anonymous, the Dangers of Success"
-- The Nation, March 2, 1964:
"I concluded that AAs headquarters had been captured by an
ultraconservative clique that was doing the society appreciable harm."
-
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=12850140
== MySpace "Bill Wilson" blog.
A fantasy blog where the ghost of Bill Wilson talks to the faithful followers.
- Bill Webb, an A.A. oldtimer and A.A. promoter:
-
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28541
== "Losing the Battle With Addiction" -- opinion about addiction
-
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28931">
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28931
==
"The Stockbroker and the Proctologist" -- the standard fairy tale about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous
-
In German:
Anti-Cult
-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E
== Cult Mind Control video. Excellent, must-see.
-
http://www.csj.org/ --
American Family Foundation. AFF studies cults and psychological
manipulation.
Cult 101 is a good place to begin research on the subject of cults.
-
CAIC ==
The Cult Awareness & Information Centre in Australia; Good stuff.
http://www.caic.org.au/
-
http://www.FreedomOfMind.com/ -- Steven Hassan's anti-cult web site.
He was a Moonie for about seven years, so he speaks about cults from experience.
-
http://www.icsahome.com/
== the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a network of
people concerned about cultic, manipulative, and abusive groups.
As the leading professional organization in the field, ICSA strives to
increase understanding and awareness of such groups and to help people
that they harm.
-
http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/lorenz_diana_spiritpain.htm
== Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality: Issues of Spiritual Abuse,
Religious Addiction, and Dependency in ISKCON, by Diana Lorenz
-
Anton and Janet Hein-Hudson, Amsterdam, Netherlands
-
http://ApologeticsIndex.org
== Research resources on religions, cults, sects, and related issues
-
http://ReligionNewsBlog.com
== News & news archive on religions, cults, sects, and related issues
-
http://CultFAQ.org
== FAQs on cults, sects and related issues.
-
http://www.refocus.org
-- ReFOCUS Network -- Recovering Former Cultists Support Network
-
http://www.reveal.org/
-- REVEAL -- Former Members of the International Churches of Christ -- ICC, ICOC,
"Boston Movement", "Boston Church of Christ",
"Crossroads Movement"
-
http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/aacultbk01.htm
== "Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Cult? An Old Question Revisited" by L. Allen Ragels
-
http://ex-pentecostal.blogspot.com/
-- Ex-Pentecostal, quite perceptive, analyses Pentecostal recruiting tactics
among other things.
-
http://www.factnet.org/ -- FactNet,
"Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network" --
anti-cult info
-
http://lgattruth.blogspot.com/
== Mind Control Made Easy, or How to Become a Cult Leader -- a film by Carey Burtt
(free online video)
-
http://ex-cult.org --
ex-cult Resource Center... General information, Specific Cults, Discussion Forums and links....
-
http://www.CULTWATCH.com -- Cult Watch
-
http://www.howcultswork.com/ -- How Cults Work
-
http://clever.net/ozark/awareness/
-- The Awareness Page -- Large Group Awareness Trainings --
General articles on the topic of "LGATs" and specific info on
Werner Erhard's
est
scam --
Landmark Education, The Forum, Lifespring, Momentus Training, Insight Seminars,
New Warriors Training, and other "Transformational Encounter Groups"
-
http://surrealist.org/betrayalofthespirit/ -- anti-cult in general, and
specifically against the Hari Krishna cult.
-
http://www.bee.net/cardigan/attic/021399.htm --
Mainstream Cults, by Cardigan.
-
http://www.xs4all.nl or:
http://www.nedstat.nl
-- On the Psychology of Spiritual Movements, by
Michael Rogge
-
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/aa.html
-- University of Virginia -- New religious movements, Alcoholics Anonymous Beliefs and Practices
-
http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/
== About Rev. Sun Myung Moon
-
http://www.alternet.org/stories/50934/
== The Secrets of the Christian Right's Recruiting Tactics ; sounds like a cult to me.
"The callousness of these techniques -- targeting the vulnerable,
building false friendships with the lonely or troubled, promising to
relieve people of the most fundamental dreads of human existence from
the fear of mortality to the numbing pain of grief -- gave to the process
an awful cruelty and dishonesty."
-
http://www.perefound.org/ --
The Peregrine Foundation is a charitable, educational and research public
foundation created in 1992 to assist families and individuals living in
or exiting from experimental social groups.
-
http://www.wellspringretreat.org/
-- Wellspring is a non-profit treatment center to help people recover
from abusive cults. Based on the work of
Dr. Robert J. Lifton,
and emphasizes understanding brainwashing and how it was done to the patient.
-
http://www.xenutv.com/cults/ -- Videos about cults
-
http://www.paradigm-shifter.com/links/cult-exit.html
-- Cult - Exit
-
http://www.csicop.org
-- CSICOP (USA) -- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims
of the Paranormal -- Skeptics Organisation
-
http://www.xenu.net/cic/
-- Cult Information Centre (CIC), London
-
http://www.ultranet.com/~comments --
Comments from the Friends... A resource for Jehovahs Witnesses, ex-JWs,
and persons concerned about JW relatives or neighbors -- providing
up-to-date information through a quarterly publication, referrals to
local support groups,...
-
http://www.pnc.com.au/~fichrist --
Free In Christ Ministries - Information for Jehovah's Witnesses and Ex-JWs --
Support for those trapped in the Watchtower Society
-
http://www.support4xjws.org/ --
Support Group for Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses... A place for former JWs to connect, fellowship, etc.
Meet people who KNOW what you are going through. Friends & family of JWs are welcome!...
-
http://www.exmormon.org/ --
Recovery from Mormonism -- a site for those who are questioning their
faith in the organization and for those who need support as they transition
their lives to a normal life.
-
http://www.infidels.org/electronic/email/ex-tian/ --
Ex-tian Website --
"Leaving the fold" --
Many deconversion stories, subscription to Ex-tian Mailing List, Book recommendations
-
http://skepdic.com --
The Skeptical Dictionary --
"From Abracadabra to Zobies" -- includes A Course
in Miracles, Dianetics/Scientology, Ear Candling, Firewalking, Glossolalia, God, I Ching,
Kabalah, Levitation, Miracles, Multi-Level Marketing, New Age Therapies,
Occultism, Prana, Reiki, Sai Baba, Tensegrity, UFOs, von Däniken,
and Wishful thinking.
-
http://www.talk2action.org/
-
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/
== Religion News Blog -- Religion news articles about religious cults, sects, world religions and related issues
-
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8605/the-power-of-cults
== The Power of Cults
-
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/265-who-joins-cults-and-why
== Who Joins Cults, and Why?
-
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7951/when-spirituality-goes-awry-students-in-cults
== When Spirituality Goes Awry: Students in Cults
-
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10212/todays-cults-you-might-not-recognize-them
== Today's Cults: You Might Not Recognize Them
-
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17851/westboro-hate-group
== British newspaper article about the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group that pickets the funerals of
American soldiers who died in the Iraq War.
-
http://www.rickross.com/ -- Rick Ross -- a self-appointed "cult expert" --
more recovery cult and children's gulags information. Questionable methods and ethics.
Has a history of working as a coercive deprogrammer, and worse. The Wikipedia reports that he
went to Waco, Texas, and recommended to the FBI that they use confrontational tactics on David Koresh,
which directly or indirectly led to the crisis that resulted in the deaths of the cult members, including
many children.
Ross censored me and deleted my posts from his "forum"
when I argued that A.A. was a cult and questioned his knowledge of A.A. and his credentials.
See the deleted postings
here
- See the wikipedia page on Rick Ross:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ross_%28consultant%29
-
http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html
== the Landmark Forum, which is what Werner Erhardt's "est" scam turned into
-
http://www.cultnews.com/
== Cult News Network -- More cult news from Rick Ross
Scientology
Straight Child Abuse and Similar Crimes
-
http://www.isaccorp.com/
-- International Survivors Action Committee -- dedicated to exposing abusive behavior
modification centers, drug treatment programs, and mental health facilities
-
http://www.kathymoya.com/FICA/index.html
-- FICA = Fight Institutional Child Abuse
-
http://www.fornits.com/anonanon --
about Straight, the Seed, and other children's gulags. More survivors.
-
http://www.thestraights.com --
information about Straight, Inc. and related recovery cult children's gulags.
-
http://www.geocities.com/snoffl/strtstry.html -- Straight Inc, Drug War Concentration Camp of the 1980s.
-
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=getting_tough_on_private_prisons_for_teens
== article by Maia Szalavitz, "Getting Tough on Private Prisons for Teens"
-
Letters from Straight survivors with links to recent blogs, web pages, and
other information:
-
Anonymous.
-
Anonymous.
-
Kim's letter.
-
http://www.teenliberty.org/Teens_Locked_Inside_Gulags.htm
-- Teen Liberty -- more information about children's gulags
-
http://www.taxexemptchildabuse.net
-- Scientology & Dianetics: Tax-exempt Child Abuse and Neglect
-
http://www.trebach.org/ -- about Straight and its clones.
-
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1095/10f_deth.html
-- Jon Krakauer, Outside Magazine, "Loving Them To Death".
This excellent article about abusive "wilderness trek rehabilitation programs"
is Must reading. Five stars, two thumbs up, and all of that.
-
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1095/10f_det1.html
-- Outside Magazine -- Caveat Emptor -- buyer beware of "wilderness
boot camps for troubled teens"
-
http://www.63days.com/
-- 63 Days, another horror story of imprisonment and torture in another one of those "wilderness trek" child-abuse rackets.
-
http://www.nospank.net/boot.htm
-- BOOT CAMP: Cruelty, sadism, injury and death in locked residential
facilities for troubled youth. Includes a good list of links to other articles about
child abuse in the name of rehabilitation.
-
http://www.nospank.net/n-o84r.htm -- Six camp counselors charged with murder, 2005.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a long list of the names of children murdered
in those "boot camps".
- In Florida, the camp "drill sergeants" and a "nurse" murder another child:
http://www.nospank.net/anderson.htm
== the story of Martin Lee Anderson.
-
http://www.nospank.net/lawrenc3.htm for information on Michael Pearl's child-abuse instructional books.
Michael Pearl is an evangelical minister from Tennessee
who writes books about child discipline where he advocates spanking
children with PVC plastic pipe -- even
spanking babies as young as 4 months. And he passes that criminal behavior off as "Christianity".
-
http://www.nospank.net/news5.htm
== a good list of news items
-
http://intothesunrise.blogspot.com/ == a blog that gives information about
child abuse and deaths due to Michael Pearl, the evangelical minister from Tennessee
who advocates spanking children with plastic pipe.
-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/...
== the Amazon listing for Michael Pearl's child-abuse instructional book, with customer reviews that
both condemn and praise Pearl's child-abuse advice.
-
Myspace Blog: End Institutionalized Child Abuse
-
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/hr1738/petition.html
-- Petition for the passage of the End Institutionalized Abuse Against Children Act of 2005.
SIGN IT.
-
http://www.dfaf.org/ --
DFAF -- the Drug Free America Foundation, the former Straight, Inc. child-abusing organization
-- Definitely the Heart of the Beast. Run by the Sembler Cartel, the
"Ambassador DeSade" family.
Dahn Hak, the Cult of Ilchi Lee
Political and Social Web Sites, Web Pages, and Articles
-
http://www.commondreams.org/
-- Common Dreams
-
http://www.CommonCause.org/ -- Common Cause, "Holding Power Accountable"
-
http://www.MediaMatters.org/ -- Media Matters, truth about political matters
-
http://www.MoveOn.org/ -- it's Move On dot Org -- what else can I say?
(Well, I can say, "Great stuff...")
-
http://www.alternet.org/
== An alternative source of information
-
http://www.alternet.org/stories/50934/
== The Secrets of the Christian Right's Recruiting Tactics ; sounds like a cult to me.
-
http://www.opensecrets.org/ -- Open Secrets,
"Your Guide to Money in U.S. Elections"
-
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/
== The Smirking Chimp
-
http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore.html
-- William Howard Kunstler, the author of "The Long Emergency:
Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century"
-
http://AlFrankenShow.com/ -- Al Franken's radio show on Air America
-
http://www.TheRandiRhodesShow.Com/ -- The Randi Rhodes Show on Air America Radio
-
http://www.WeGotEd.Com/ -- The Ed Schultz Show on Jones Radio Network
-
http://www.bigeddieradio.com/
-- The Ed Schultz Show
-
http://www.indymedia.org/ -- Independent Media
-
http://www.TheMemoryHole.org -- The Memory Hole,
"rescuing knowledge, freeing information"
-
http://TalkingPointsMemo.com -- Political Talking Points
- Free Tibet
When researching a subject,
also do research on the Internet through your public library's
EBSCO database,
or the
Electric Library.
You may need a library card to access these databases (like your local
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