Reply To: "Faith in Drugs"

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Reply To: "Faith in Drugs"

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February 7, 2021 at 12:46 pm #12184

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Thank you so much for your post!! I shared it with my boss who has read Science and Health and is a local leader in Alcoholics Anonymous. An online source from AA said, “Before the 1930s, popular attempts to treat alcoholism and drug dependency included methods like segregation in asylums, reliance on mutual aid fraternities, and even the use of cocaine, which psychologist Sigmund Freud considered the “magical drug.” If I understand it correctly from what my boss said, AA offers recovery… but not in the sense of, or with the hope of complete healing of the possibility of being attracted to or being drawn back into the drug use… no complete healing in that sense (even if abstinent for many years)- but with danger of relapse and being overpowered by the drug ever hovering.