AA MINORITY REPORT 2017 (revised)

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Thursday 16 September 2010

The new Dual Recovery Anonymous (UK) website

http://www.dualrecoveryanonymous.org/

Please note moreover (quote taken from the DRA website - under the Medications and Recovery section):

"DRA members often go to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings for additional support and fellowship. Often men and women who have been diagnosed with a dual disorder say that they have received misguided advice about their diagnosis and the use of medication at other Twelve Step meetings. Some have been told that they do not have an emotional or psychiatric illness, and that they are experiencing merely self-pity or some other character defect "You don't need those pills; they'll cause you more problems" and "If you're taking pills, then you're in relapse and not really sober". Individuals who have followed such advice have experienced relapse: some have been hospitalized; some have returned to alcohol or drug use; some have attempted or even completed suicide. To say the least, it can be very confusing. Though we can not speak for other organizations, their literature makes clear that these types of statements are not the official position of A.A., N.A., or any other Twelve Step recovery groups that we are aware of."

Whilst DRA are generous enough to attribute such advice in the main to well-intentioned motives we know otherwise with regard to the cult groups,and for whom this anti medication stance is a central part of their dogma. For our part we wish DRA well with their efforts and trust that their members will continue to feel entirely at liberty to attend other Fellowships meetings - as they are of course fully entitled to do