http://www.drugabuse.gov/infofacts/treatmeth.html
In a nutshell, the address above gives the position of the federal NIDA and also sets the stage for research and grants that fund the research that guides the field of addiction/alcoholism treatment today.
Brain research has directed the treatment of addiction and the mental health/psychology field has followed it. This treatment relies on medications to be effective. It also involves behavioral health treatment as understood by mental health/psychology.
Every day the gap widens between the way AA/NA sees how to approach a person who is suffering from being an alcoholic or drug addict and how mental health treatment views recovery. And while AA/NA still influences some mental health treatment, the issue I am concerned about is how mental health/psychology is influencing AA/NA
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