The Alternatives

An old ad for a addiction cure.

The insanity is palpable among those who are outrightly hostile towards AA. But they are not at fault. Their own illness blinds them within the deathly black pall of denial, greed and avarice toward their fellow suffering men. But what can one make of the insanity? In an effort to warn others who suffer from alcoholism, we urge the fellowship to reject the secular quick-fix nonsense which harms, even KILLS, alcoholics.

For an example of the quackery out there, there is an addiction breaking system promised to cure addictions, including the compulsive desire to eat, use alcohol, cocaine, heroin or tobacco. Advertised in the popular media, it also claimed that the system could lead to significant weight loss without the need to diet or exercise. "We're going to be sharing a doctor's revolutionary breakthrough that he had discovered while studying quantum physics," the advertisement said. "He came up with the breakthrough that in 60 seconds can eliminate your addictive urge to overeat, to smoke cigarettes, to do any compulsion, any type of addicted behavior, whether it be alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, food . . . Now this technique will take 60 seconds to apply and works virtually 100 percent of the time." In fact, the technique as advertised showed the doctor demonstrating his "revolutionary addiction breaking system"-- a series of gestures, including tapping his face, chest and hand; rolling his eyes; and humming, which, if mimicked, were the supposed addiction cure.

This isn't snake oil chicanery of olden times as demonstrated by the image of the advertisement above but within our recent times. In order not to promote these sick and depraved schemes we've taken the stance of anonymizing the anecdote above. It does prove a serious point at how ludicrous these deeply misguided souls are willing to avoid the real issue of recovery from alcoholism.

The point? The only alternatives are jails, institutions and death. So, if you feel you have a drinking problem, take this time-tested and proven advice to heart and put it into action: Go to meetings, get a sponsor, read the Big Book and work the Steps.

That is why we'll never advertise so-called "alternatives" for they are nothing more than insanity by a bunch of insane dry drunks in denial. They are willing to profit off of others for the sake of remaining diseased. Poor people. Their disease is doing push-ups in the parking lot and they don't even care...until they hit their true bottom.

We know of one person who heeded the clarion cries of these unfortunates. This person is now wracked with mental anguish against an invisible "they", a "they" he cries about on his own website as a form of stalking even when no persons are present. Thus, in his diseased paroxysms of paranoia his disease has become worse at the hands of these people whose vainglorious, sinful pride of being "12-Step-Free" has led to this man's mental ruin.

He tries to console himself with futile abandon that it's all the other gadgets and his own environment. The fact is that he has become a lost sheep, separated from God, and now has truly become blind along with the rest of them. He knows the truth yet settles for the false meetings of those who don't know any better. He should come home for he too can recover only when he's honest with himself regarding the lies from those who have confused him.

It would mean a betrayal of sorts towards those who claim to be his friends. But is it really friendship when they allow one person to succumb to a fatal disease? Is it not insane, possibly irresponsible, for these representatives of the so-called alternatives to use a human being as their sacrificial lamb for the sake of furthering their own secular agenda?

Pray for them for they know not what they do. The alternatives are insanity incarnate.

The Freeport PA Recovery Site: Library

The Alternatives

The Freeport PA Recovery Site:
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