Alas, though, it’s been raining the whole time we’ve been here.
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The most famous twelve-step program, of course, is that of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Some of my readers will be aware of the fact that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has adopted a modified form of such a twelve-step program for combating all sorts of addictions.
When I was a bishop, I made some use of it and was quite impressed with its potential. In fact, since I believe that all of us suffer from addictions of one sort or another — not merely to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, or pornography, but to less dramatic things that we still repeat even though we know that they’re self-defeating (such as staying up too late, oversleeping, procrastinating, overeating, spending too much time online or in front of the television, gossiping, quarreling with people with whom we’ve vowed not to quarrel, etc., etc.) — it occurred to me that virtually everybody could profit from regular use of the Church’s generalized twelve-step program or something like it.
An article in the current issue of The Atlantic criticizes such programs, though, as ineffective.
Here’s a brief item, however, arguing that the Atlantic author has done her readers a real disservice and that she hasn’t accurately represented the actual science:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/03/why-alcoholics-anonymous-works.html
Posted from Langley, British Columbia
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