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NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rolling Stones lead guitarist Ronnie Wood is back in rehab for the third time in the past four years as the troubled star continues to battle alcoholism, reports a British paper last week. Just yesterday, Courtney Love was sentenced to mandatory rehab. Addiction and the efficacy of treatment are once again making headlines.
In the new book, 7 TOOLS TO BEAT ADDICTION, Dr. Stanton Peele, a foremost addiction expert, gives us good reason to ponder the likely outcomes of most substance abuse treatment. Only 10 percent of Americans who enter traditional 12-step programs successfully enjoy long-term recovery. In fact, studies have shown that such approaches might actually cause participants to develop even more severe addictive behaviors. In his new book, Peele suggests other ways for people to escape drug, alcohol, and other addictions. He offers a long overdue, sensible, and safe approach to addiction recovery supported by scientific evidence.
7 TOOLS TO BEAT ADDICTION demonstrates how conventional treatment programs in the United States are failing the addiction community by ignoring the latest research, which conclusively demonstrates that people who entered 12- step programs were more likely to revisit their addictions than those who did not seek treatment.
Dr. Peele strongly criticizes the core messages of these conventional programs because they approach addiction as a disease conveying a lifelong dependency to the program. Members...
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