Podcasts Health Busting Addiction and Its Myths Mini Series 4 - Are all treatment programs 12-step based?

Mini Series 4 - Are all treatment programs 12-step based?

Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 8 a.m.

In this podcast, we answer the question... Are all treatment programs 12-step based?

The 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other 12-Step programs such as Narcotics (NA) are viewed by many recovering people and professionals as indispensable to life-long recovery.

  1. Opinions differ, however, as to their role in treatment programs, depending on the philosophy of the management.
  2. Some rehabs treat 12-Step programs as an option, preferring the more cognitive models, while others lean more heavily on the 12-Steps as an essential component of early recovery.
  3. If the goal of treatment is to help prepare clients for a successful journey after they leave treatment, at SafeHouse Rehab we believe that we should introduce AA and NA into the process early enough to get them ready for the next phase.
  4. We don't claim that 12-Step programs are the only way to grow and stay sober, and neither does AA. We do know, as recovering people ourselves, that the 12-Steps of AA and NA have played a central role in our continuing sober lives.

Some members of the public paint 12-Step programs unfairly as secretive and mysterious, when they could easily just visit www.aa.org and see for themselves.