Cardwell Nuckols' Science, Spirituality & 12-Step Facilitated Recovery

Prior to the onset of organizations such as the Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous, most alcoholics died from their disease or its complications. Since 1935 over 200 research studies have provided evidence that millions have entered recovery utilizing 12-step programs. Over the past decades, a rigorous science of recovery has emerged. Some of this science comes from evidence based studies of the treatment of early life trauma in early recovery. The social sciences, spiritual disciplines (Christianity, Buddhism, etc.) and enhancement of health from meditation practices such as mindfulness merge seamlessly into the understanding of 12-Step facilitated recovery. Quantum physics and neuroscience, including scientific studies of spiritual states, neuroimaging of the brain, and studies of genetic influence on a persons predisposition for addictive disorders also contribute. Completing the picture, research findings in neurobiology reveal how psychoactive drugs work within the brain to cause the many manifestations of addictive disorders.
This understanding has been intuitively realized by millions of alcoholics, addicts, clinicians, and others who have observed—sometimes against all odds—what can only be called the miracle of recovery. Now we can scientifically understand and treat much of what has in the past been relegated to anecdotal lore and mystery.
This video set includes the PowerPoint presentations used by Dr. Nuckols in his presentation.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• nuckols
• great lakes training
• alcoholism
• addiction
• treatment
• mental health
• alcoholics anonymous
• 12-step recovery

[Hammersley1967]

I think it also explains the second step...

Actually, it demonstrates the first and second step working (or in this case NOT working) in tandem...

[zooromeo]

You are a racist, narrow minded old coot... To think that the Australian Government encourages this behaviour is not only ignorant - its childish and ridiculously irrational. But then again Godlyretardspam is one of your best friends..

BTW - Why is it that whenever I mke a sound, logical point to you in either a comment or a PM - you ignore it ? Hmmmmmm

I bet you mourn the lost of George W Bush too....

[zooromeo]

Hows the weather in Texas ?

[Hammersley1967]

"a power greater than themselves that does not want them to be "rabid vermin", and hopefully they may come to belive it."

They wont believe anything - theyll all be DEAD!!!

[Hammersley1967]

Unlike the (unwise) plans that you have for you children and grandchildren - "The Two Richies" - I do not want my progeny to be rubbing shoulders with these dirty, filthy, lying cheating, scum-filled, putrid, festering, puss buckets...

The Government views them as the rabid vermin that they are and wisely disposes of them likewise...

Would you want your lovely niece Gina to be consorting with these subhumans?

[Hammersley1967]

[2]

The intent of the policy is to give the children open access to as much drugs and alcohol as they want, so that by the time they are sexually mature, they are either dead or too cognitively damaged to procreate.

Hence, there wont be any "future generations" for our "children or grandchildren to deal with"...

Theyll all be extinguished from the greater population...

Thus, the gene will be eradicated forever...

[Hammersley1967]

[1]

"Ham: If you emphazie, then 'super-(empha)size' it and become involved, for the good of mankind, for your future generations. Or, are you leaving those problems to your children and grandchildren to deal with?"

Eve: What I meant by "empathise" is that I empathise with YOU and YOUR concerns. However, consistent with the Australian governments "White Upwardly Mobile Social Policy", this empathy in NO way extents to the Aboriginals or even the white under-classes.

[Hammersley1967]

Eve, I empathize with your concerns, but the Australian government has a strictly "hands off" approach to Aboriginal substance abusers - particularly the solvent sniffers.

You see its an "Assimilate or Annihilate" (the other AA) policy in Australia when it comes to the Abos.

And the kids who are plied with alcohol - night after night - by there parents?

Well, the little snot-nosed bastards love it!

Indeed, its a well established cultural nuance of the underclasses...

Who are we to preach?

[Hammersley1967]

poo poos?

[Hammersley1967]

God is a concept by which we measure our pain?