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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members SHARE
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance when she started going to AA meetings. Instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer with a violent past.
Each year, the legal system coerces more than 150,000 people to join AA, according to AA’s own membership surveys. Many are drunken drivers ordered to attend a few months of meetings. Others are felons whose records include sexual offenses and domestic violence and who choose AA over longer prison sentences. They mingle with AA’s traditional clientele, ordinary citizens who are voluntarily seeking help with their drinking problems from a group whose main tenets is anonymity.
Forced attendance seems at odds with the original traditions of the organization, which state that the “only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.†So far, AA has declined to caution members about potentially dangerous peers
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members SHARE
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance when she started going to AA meetings. Instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer with a violent past.
Each year, the legal system coerces more than 150,000 people to join AA, according to AA’s own membership surveys. Many are drunken drivers ordered to attend a few months of meetings. Others are felons whose records include sexual offenses and domestic violence and who choose AA over longer prison sentences. They mingle with AA’s traditional clientele, ordinary citizens who are voluntarily seeking help with their drinking problems from a group whose main tenets is anonymity.
Forced attendance seems at odds with the original traditions of the organization, which state that the “only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.†So far, AA has declined to caution members about potentially dangerous peers
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Speaking About Charlie: How I would work with Charlie Sheen by Dr. Stanton Peele SHARE
Academy Awards Commemorative Post: Interviewed about Charlie Sheen by Jeremy Hubbard for Good Morning America, most of what I said was left on the cutting room floor. I recreate here what was omitted, comprising comments on how I would work with someone like Charlie.
Speaking About Charlie: How I would work with Charlie Sheen by Dr. Stanton Peele SHARE
Academy Awards Commemorative Post: Interviewed about Charlie Sheen by Jeremy Hubbard for Good Morning America, most of what I said was left on the cutting room floor. I recreate here what was omitted, comprising comments on how I would work with someone like Charlie.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't work for everyone -- and that's OK by Amy Lee Coy SHARE
Failing to achieve sobriety using AA and other programs that insist alcoholics are powerless over their 'disease' doesn't mean an addict is without hope.
Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't work for everyone -- and that's OK by Amy Lee Coy SHARE
Failing to achieve sobriety using AA and other programs that insist alcoholics are powerless over their 'disease' doesn't mean an addict is without hope.
