The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss

[hydro1205]

Has anyone read the book The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss?  My wife has been reading it, but I just can't get myself past the fact that the guy owns a rehab facility in Beverly Hills that costs over 50,000 dollars a month to join.  Has anyone read the book and is it any good?  I am now 33 days clean and getting better!  Thank you!

[GA Guy]

The book and his program works well for people with drug dependence. It's a fallacy for him to claim an addiction cure. Even the AMA says that addiction is a chronic disease with no known cure.

[cazidog]

I think a better question to ask, would be has anyone been cured by Pax treatment centers. I personally would be leery of anyone that has to put someone else down in order to build themselves up. Alcoholics Anonymous has been helping people for over half a century, so for this guy to go on his commercial and put them down drives me nuts. I think he is just trying to take advantage of alcoholics/addicts natural desire to find the quick fix, and be cured. The problem is that addiction is a symptom of what is really going on, and to say that can be cure in such a short amount of time is ridiculous. There's a reason why only he, and his son are the only ones that think you can cure such deep seeded pschological problem in a short amount of time. Whatever though, you wouldn't be the first alcoholic/addict to try everything else but the twelve steps of A.A. I support you in whatever you decide to try, but if it doesn't work for you please remember that A.A. will always be there with doors wide open.
Just for clarification sake. People are always throwing out percentage rates of success/failure for A.A. members, but before the court systems started forcing people to go to A.A. meetings A.A. success rate was 98%. So, something to think about if your listening to the negative propaganda out there about A.A.

[GoingToMakeIt]

No, I haven't read that one. I have read and recommend "Seven weeks to sobriety" This is for alcoholics but many things can apply to all addicts.
Also the book "END YOUR ADDICTION NOW" is excellent.

[hydro1205]

Sorry, that is Malibu and not Beverly Hills.