Popular Post george Posted June 18, 2006 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2006 A.A. Thailand: http://www.aathailand.org/A.A. Thailand Alcoholics Anonymous is an international, spiritually oriented community of alcoholics who meet in groups. The primary purpose of A.A. members is to stay sober and help other alcoholics do the same. A.A. formed the original twelve-step program and has been the source and model for all similar recovery groups such as Gamblers Anonymous, Emotional Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Sexaholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and Al-Anon/Alateen, among others. Until the mid-1930s, alcoholics who did not have the financial means to hire a psychiatrist or admit themselves to a private sanitarium could find help only at state hospitals, in jails, or through street ministries. The founding of Alcoholics Anonymous marked the first approach to supporting the sustained recovery of the alcoholic, regardless of their financial standing. One aspect of Alcoholics Anonymous is their definition of alcoholism. They define it as a progressive disease from which the alcoholic is suffering. A.A. prescribes that alcoholism, as a disease, cannot be cured. A.A. believes the recovering alcoholic has no option but to completely abstain from alcohol. Another aspect of Alcoholics Anonymous is that it is exclusively run by alcoholics (aside from 7 out of 21 members of the A.A. Board of trustees who are listed as “nonalcoholic friends of the fellowship”. A.A. believes that the relative success of their program is owed to their opinion that a recovering alcoholic has a special ability to bond and provide insight into the necessity of sobriety to the alcoholic. A.A. literature describes a difference between an "alcoholic" and a "problem drinker", claiming that unlike a ‘problem drinker’ who may drink alcohol but retains the ability to stop or moderate his or her drinking, an alcoholic has an incurable disease rendering them unable to moderate their consumption of alcohol. A.A. states that only the individual him- or herself can determine whether he or she is an alcoholic. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous A.A. Thailand: http://www.aathailand.org/A.A. Thailand 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robitusson Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 A list intended to offer choice and alternatives to the usual routes when seeking help for problem drinking, alcoholism and addiction. http://www.assistedrecovery.com/ http://www.secularsobriety.org/ http://www.rational.org/ http://www.moderation.org/ http://www.womenforsobriety.org/body.html http://www.smartrecovery.org/ http://www.recoveryfree.com/home.html http://www.addictioninfo.org http://www.unhooked.com/msk/index.html http://www.aanottheonlyway.com/ http://www.acay.com.au/~narcosis/yes.html http://www2.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/DBs/RedBoo...gs/1/12865.html http://www.sinclairmethod.com/sinclairmethod.htm http://www.harmreductiontherapy.org/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaijai Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Two other links for alternative views/programmes: http://www.peele.net/ From AA Deprogramming: Reading list. Alternative recovery choices 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaijai Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 The world-renowned detox/rehab programme at Wat Tham Krabok boasts a high success rate for substance abusers (including alcohol abusers). http://www.thamkrabok.org/behandlungen.html http://www.tara-detox.org/html/faqs.html http://www.thamkrabok.net/html/treatment.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sheryl Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 http://www.newlifethaifoundation.com/ A comparatively low cost residential program in Northern Thailand based on Buddhist principles but non-sectarian. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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