| A Call for Unity | |
NOTE: Those with different approaches to recovery are so busy jousting with each other, they sometimes forget they are actually fighting side-by-side to slay the same dragon. In the spirit of unity, we were asked to publish the following statement from a group of professionals associated with alcoholism and addiction treatment and study.
Statement on Audrey Kishline
Ms. Kishline was the founder of a mutual-help group, Moderation Management, which differed from other groups in supporting participants in choosing and pursuing either of two goals, moderate drinking or abstinence. In January 2000, months before the tragic crash, Ms. Kishline announced that she was changing her personal goal to abstinence, leaving Moderation Management, and planning to attend other mutual-help groups, explicitly mentioning, among others, Alcoholics Anonymous.
That Ms. Kishline was intoxicated at the time of the crash has been claimed to indicate the failure of the approach of one or another of the mutual-help groups Ms. Kishline has attended.
Such claims are not in accord with everyday experience in the field, in which relapse is common, whichever approach the drinker adopts. Recovery from serious alcohol problems is a difficult goal, and there are different paths to it.
We believe that the approach represented by Alcoholics Anonymous and that represented by Moderation Management are both needed.
Signed by
Jim Balmer
Charles Bishop
Jan Blomqvist, Ph.D.
Archie Brodsky
Bruce Carruth, Ph.D.
Don Curto
Alexander F. DeLuca, M.D., FASAM
Patt Denning, Ph.D.
Rich Dubiel, Ph.D.
J. Michael Faragher, Psy.D., CACIII
John Gessner, M.A., L.P.
A. Thomas Horvath, Ph.D., FAClinP
Keith Humphreys, Ph.D.
Lee Ann Kaskutas, DrPH
Marc. F. Kern, Ph.D.
Ana Kosok, M.S., M.Ed.
Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D.
Linda Farris Kurtz, D.P.A., A.C.S.W.
Klaus Mäkelä, Ph.D.
G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.
Don McIntire
Oliver Morgan, Ph,.D., NCC
Nancy Olson
George A. Parks, Ph.D.
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., Esq.
Elizaberh Robinson, Ph.D.
Robin Room, Ph.D.
Fred Rotgers, Psy.D.
Edith Springer, A.C.S.W.
Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D.
Al Turner B.A , CADC
J. E. Tutton, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Joseph R. Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Bill White, M.A.
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