Not a spiritual, religious, or personal growth method AVRT is education on planned abstinence AVRT can be learned by reading or with audio-visual materials. Meet some people, above, who dislike Rational Recovery. There are more objections to Rational Recovery than one page can handle. Above, is an ongoing workshop on AVRT based on questions from the internet audience. You are invited to join in by sending your questions to AVRTalk .
Families often suffer more from addiction than the addicts do.
Recovery groups are bad company, causing more harm than addiction. Nearly half of AA's membership are forced to attend through lack of choice, intimidation, court sentences or other mandates. The suffering caused by recovery groups is real. Here, you may read their true stories. If the examples at the above link aren't enough, this one spells it out for you.