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During the 1980’s, Jack Trimpey founded the second largest recovery group network in history, Rational Recovery, extending into 1000 cities. His plan to provide an alternative to the ubiquitous 12-step recovery group movement was thwarted when it became apparent to him that recovery groups aggravate addiction and actually stand in the way of prompt recovery through planned, permanent abstinence. He subsequently disbanded the RR recovery group network, replacing therapeutic discussion with Addictive Voice Recognition Technique® (AVRT®), an aggressive thinking skill which forces upon the addict the choice between addiction and prompt, full recovery through planned, permanent abstinence. In this short... [Read More]

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This book is a first major attempt to examine what might be involved in consistently applying social understandings to addictions. Traditional approaches are dominated by what the book refers to as “particle” perspectives in which the focus narrows down to the person experiencing the addiction. Despite decades of research and development, particle-derived intervention approaches have yielded marginal gains in reducing levels of addiction. A shift in orientation may open up new possibilities. A social perspective shifts from thinking in terms of particles to viewing a person in terms of relationships. People become, in many ways, defined by the array of... [Read More]