The Re-socialization View Of Recovery?

Hmmm – for your serious consideration;

The Re-socialization View Of Recovery

This view of recovery is…

‘…highly social and involves the use of informal community resources that provide a sobriety-based framework in which one can stop drinking and maintain sobriety.’

William L. White – “Slaying the Dragon”

“In the Re-socialization View of recovery, the biggest problem of the addict is not a need for spiritual experience, nor is it underlying psychological stressors. Instead, the Re-socialization View believes that the addict’s biggest problem is using. When the using stops, the addict’s biggest problem becomes how to stay stopped. Solutions to these problems are fairly straightforward. ‘Don’t use, go to meetings, ask for help.’ ‘Keep coming back.’ ‘Meeting makers make it.’ ‘90 meetings in 90 days.’ These and other similar slogans outline the program of the Re-socialization view—just keep going to meetings.”

Now, please give this serious consideration,

That Ain’t In The Book!

For example;

“Don’t drink and go to meetings.”

Page 34, paragraph 2: “Many of us felt we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.”

I may not share this with all, but there is one thing that really stands out and strikes me about the Re-socialization View of Recovery. Can you perceive what it is?