Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, Na, or 12-Step Treatment

by Stanton Peele and Charles Bufe

Book Overview

This book is a guide for the one million-plus Americans per year who face coerced religious indoctrination in the guise of alcohol or drug treatment. It outlines legal strategies and existing court... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884365175
• ISBN13: 9781884365171
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: See Sharp Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ for all "coerced 12-Step attendees!" (and others!)

This books is modern. current, excellently, and exquisitely researched, and argued! Anyone who has ever been COERCED to attend 12-Step meetings needs to read this work in order to insure that: a.) they do not have it happen to them again, and b.) how others that have not had it happen yet, can PREVENT from having it happen! I wish every judge, D.A., and anyone with the power to coerce people into 12-Step programs had to read this book first. It would end the "mutual disdain" that exist of coerced 12-Step meeting attendees towards voluntary 12-Step attendees, and the other way around!

Denial and Deception

Denial and Deception is what these 12 Steppers have been doing for years now. They have been denying that they are not a cult like fundamentalist religion and deceiving everyone with their fabrications that they are the only treatment (that works) for addictions and even the made-up co-dependency construct.Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, and Archie Brodsky has used real science to show that 12 Stepping is not the only game in town... in truth I think a voodoo witch doctor would have better out-comes with treating addictions than joining a 12-Step cult. Resisting 12-Step Coercion, presents addiction issues in real psychological light, which shows that they are not victimizing diseases that must be treated for life. There is the ability to recover fully and no need to be in some 12-step recovery room for the rest of your life. The 12-steps have been shown, by this book, to be an almost useless treatment model when coercion is used to rope in clients. I found book to be well written and professional. I think you will find it eye opening. So open those eyes for it is time for the 12 Step Cult to be ousted from the treatment centers they have commandeered from logical treatment. It is time for real mental health treatment to care for those who need it. This is an excellent work, which exposes 12-Stepping for what it is: coercion.Our gullible public needs to stop being so naïve... to that end read this book.Rick Goodner, Author of "Co-dependent... What a Bore and Other Clinical Observations".

12-stepper half truths

it would be helpful if the 12-stepper cult members who review this book would actually READ it before they review it. it also would be helpful if they spoke something other than half truths ."the gal who started Moderation Management as a response to AA was convicted of killing two people in a drunken driving accident. AA's response to that was no comment."this is not surprising given that Audrey Kishline ("the gal") had been not practicing moderation in her own group, but had become an active AA cult member months before the fatal accident. AA members always forget to mention this FACT. But this is besides the point because she has nothing to do with the topic of this book, as this stepper is trying to make Mr. Peele somehow guilty by association to Ms. Kishline's lack of personal responsibility and to cloud the issue of 12-Step coercion in this country.the truth is AA is a double thinking religious cult, whose members use their influence to make it the model for over 90% treatment center is USA, and limit the availability of other models. the truth is, according to AA's own survey, 50% of people leave AA within first 3 months, and 95% within 12 months. of those 5%, 100% are not sober for that period, if at all. AA did a survey In a 1989 of almost ten thousand members chosen at random, thirty five per cent of the respondents reported less than a year of sobriety. the abstinence rate continues to drop in the following years. AA has been around for about 60 years, but only twenty-nine percent of members have been sober for more than 5 years.the people who left AA were not served by AA's program, and were taught they would die if they left AA and didnt follow their so called "suggestions" "unless each AA member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps of recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant" by AA's founder bill wilson.. not much of a choice offered there, "follow the "Program" or you will die." "they are suggestions, take what you want and leave the rest". right. any cult would be proud of that double think.nor is there any real proof of AA' effectiveness, there isn't one legitimate study which can demonstrate AA is any better than no treatment at all. but based on the number that go thru their doors when they need help, a less than 5% recovery rate of people introduced to AA and seeking help is not successful by any standard.bottom line is, if your being forced into the religious cult of AA, this book can help you find a something which will work for you.

An Important Book

This is an important book which addresses one of the greatest threats to religious liberty in the world today.Peele et al. have done an excellent job, leaving but one stone unturned in their research. Don't forget our women and men in uniform.Forced AA in the US Military is Unconstitutional(...)

Amazingly Informative

This is the first book I've read that is really devoted to what I consider to be a major First Amendment problem in the last century--coerced 12-step meeting attendance. This is an eye-opening read, full of statistics, case histories, and information about actual court cases, where 12 step programs were ruled to be "religious." Attorneys, judges, alcohol-drug counselors, members of 12-step programs, and reps from companies with who send employees to drug-alcohol programs, as well as victims of 12-step coercion, should read this book.