Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug & Recovery Habits
by James DeSena

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Book Review: Lifesaving, Stimulating, Provacative and Truthful
Summary: 5 Stars

"Let's confront the unpleasant reality and say it out loud, AA doesn't work for many of the people struggling to overcome alcohol and other drug problems, and yet there continue to be precious few treatment alternatives. Don't despair if you've tried the traditional route and failed. Follow James DeSena's suggestions for Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits and find your own path to sobriety."
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D., author of Working with the Problem Drinker and The Miracle Method: A Radically New Approach to Problem Drinking

"Jim DeSena joins a long list of those familiar with alcoholism treatment who note that the king has no clothes - that AA and the 12 steps help a minority of alcoholics at the cost of selling them a nonsensical bill of goods. Jim's journey through the field makes for both fun reading and for important insights about ways out of alcoholism that most people will find more helpful than 12-step mumbo jumbo."
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., author of The Truth About Addiction and Recovery

"If you have doubts about what happens in 12-step oriented treatment, and no place to turn for a fresh perspective, this book is for you!"
A. Thomas Horvath, Ph.D., FAClinP, President of SMART Recovery, President (1999-2000), Division on Addictions, American Psychological Association, author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions

"It is incredibly well written, thoughtful, truthful, and incisive. The method Jim outlines for Discovery instead of recovery is inspired. I hope many who are not satisfied with AA and its Program will read his book and find answers to some of their questions. The book is a wonderful addition to the literature on alternatives to AA as well as exposing some of the harder truths behind the AA message."
Marianne Gilliam, author of How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me

"Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits by James DeSena is a self-help book about quitting an addiction. Written especially for people who are bogged down by AA's approach, DeSena exposes and debunks many of AA's teachings that some people find insulting, absurd, and self-defeating. Then he presents a theory of quitting an addiction that works through effort and a new set of beliefs, which does not rely on religious ideas. If you haven't gotten the help you expected from AA, read this book."
Philip Tate, Ph.D., author of Alcohol: How to Give It Up and Be Glad You Did

"Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits does a fine job of exposing the lies and harmful effects of AA and 12-step treatment. This book will provide a welcome ray of hope to the many, many individuals who have gone through AA and 12-step treatment, yet continue to relapse. It will help them get off this exceptionally destructive merry-go-round."
Charles Bufe, author of: Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?, co-author of Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment

If alcohol or other drugs are ruining your life, ruining the life of a friend or loved one, then you owe it to them and to yourself to learn of ALL your recovery options. Jim DeSena gives you those options. AA and 12-step treatment are but one way, and not a particularly effective way. When you consider rehab recidivism (Approximately 95% of America's rehab centers are based on AA's 12-step program---and many unwitting souls have endured this "treatment" four, five, six times and more.) and the relapse rate among AA members, which reaches the 90 plus percentile, (according to AA's own triennial surveys) you can't afford NOT to read Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment.

Furthermore, as Jim DeSena exposes in his book, AA's own most recent surveys reveal huge dropout rates: 75% after ten meetings, and 95% before one year. Of the 5% who last a year, only 45% reach at least five years sobriety. This means that fewer than three in 100 people entering AA achieve five years sobriety. And, incredibly, Alcoholics Anonymous is still touted by the addiction/recovery "experts" as the only thing that works! The sad fact is that AA works very well-for very few. I repeat, you can't afford NOT to read Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment.

JJSimone, Dallas, TX

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