Setting Win Limitations

[Frank Kneeland]

I was always under the impression that addiction cannot be cured. And that all addicts are recovering and never recovered. That was the basis for my questions.

Those are fallacious concepts from the disease model for addiction therapy, and though it is still widely used and has been shown to be an effective treatment regime (Used by GA), it is considered outmoded by current researchers, and as possibly leading to a greater chance of relapse or severity of relapse. The disease model has no basis in science, and so far has only been employed primarily because there was nothing better.

Even the people that use it mostly know its only claim to fame is somewhat flimsy evidence of efficacy. One partitioner of the disease model was quoted as saying, "Yea I know it's bull-crap but it's the best bull-crap I have". The attitude is, we know it isn't true, but it seems to work.

Your first clue that it should considered suspect is its inclusion of words like "all" & "never". When was the last time absolutes like that ever turned out to be true for individuals???

Addiction can most certainly be cured in some people, there are no absolutes where people are concerned.