Re: AA/NA Smoke and mirrors!

More than ever, I believe that alcoholism is a type of suicide that is part of a self-destruct sequence the body starts, once it contracts the allergic reaction to alcohol called alcoholism. I believe if nothing else, even if an alcoholic succumbs to death, AA makes the fall a little more comfortable and a lot less lonely. The AA as a support system is reason enough to me to encourage alcoholics to turn to AA. Like a Hospice, AA gives alcoholics an system to deal with their lives, through their triumphs and loss, among people who care about them and love them. Alcoholics might never find anyone who cares about them if not for AA.

Life has a 100% failure rate because weare all going to die. The statistics in that study do not really tell the whole story I would guess? Does it measure how many people lived longer than they would have lived without AA? Most people who enter AA, and at least try to do the program, will at least begin a conversation with a higher power. That to me makes AA better than the 0% success rate this study aledges. In the company of other alcoholics and a Higher power at least alcoholics have a network of people and powers that understand their problems. Many alcoholics isolate themselves and die without anyone who cares if they live or die. AA is place where the most loathsome human beings alive...who are driven to murder themselves with alcohol can still find a friend. If that is a failure then so be it.

If AA fails alcoholics, to me, it is because AA does not stress how important it is to eat a healthy diet. That would be my only complaint. While alcoholics are tackling their spiritual disease, their bodies are being ravaged by unhealthy diets caused by their other addicition to the Sugar in alcoholic beverages. I would like to see a study that measured the success rate of alcoholics who had a combination of a healthy diet, plus dietary supplements, and AA and compare them to those who just do AA. The drugs they give alcoholics to me are just more of the same and may only create more addicitions and cravings? I personally believe the key is probably the combination of AA, a healthy diet, and dietary supplements that will reduce craving for Sugar like Omega 3 supplements, cottage cheese and flaxseed oil... I wonder what would happen if they did flushes for alcoho;ics in treatment centers instead of doping them down?

I had a dear friend die from alcoholism and I just couldn't get her to eat right. If AA had stressed healthy foods more, perhaps she would be alive today? I don't know but it makes me cry when I think about it but I did try to get her on the the right track. I just couldn't do it for her... I miss my friend. Tweet