What Do We Want?

What does the Anti AA want?

I can't speak for everyone, but for me the answer is simple: 

I want Full Disclosure!

1) I want the courts to stop ordering Anyone to go to AA. 

I want AA to stop offering itself to the courts.

2) I want Colleges and Universities to stop promoting the steps as The Treatment of Choice for chemical dependency. 

I want educators to expose future professionals to the full range of available treatment options, in particular those based on science rather than religion.

3) I want the GSO to take responsibility for predatory behavior among the          fellowship. 

I want AA to issue a Warning, in pamphlet form, for newcomers to AA.

I want this pamphlet to state that AA is Not like a supervised medical or psychiatric "support group". 

I want AA to inform the newcomer that he or she Must be on guard against criminal behavior among members of the fellowship.

4) I want the therapeutic community to stop recommending 12 step programs to every Tom Dick and Mary who admits they might have a problem with drugs and Alcohol. 

I want them to offer evidence-based treatments for chemical dependency first.

5) Most of all, I want Everyone who suffered abuse, exploitation, or emotional distress during their time in AA and NA to speak out. 

I want them to scream about it from the rooftops. 

I want them to bitch, complain, gripe, kvetch, and whine about the horrible time they had in AA until Doctors and Therapists start to listen to our stories.

I want the therapeutic community to stop referring those people who became depressed or unhinged in a 12 step program back to the program that depressed and unhinged them. 

I want every addict and alcoholic to have a chance to find help from someone, anyone, anywhere, who might have a better suggestion to offer than just "go to a meeting" and "Let Go and Let God".

I want  to Never hear another story about so-and-so who got preyed upon or became depressed and offed themselves while they were a member of AA.

I want AA to step down and take its rightful place as merely One among Many treatment options that an alcoholic is offered when they are desperately seeking help with their drinking problem.

No double speak, no group think!