143: Cults, Drugs & The 12-Step Success Story

Email us at [email protected] This week I revisit a topic I've discussed repeatedly on this show: the reported success rates of 12-Step programs like AA and NA. I talk about the reason these programs persist as the norm despite an odd lack of data to verify their success, and I walk through the reasons AA and other 12-Step programs are highly religious while almost always claiming (and appearing) not to be. Read Cochrane's new(er) meta-analysis of 12-step success rates on their...