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Re:Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence i... by sfkdjf9j3j on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:48PM (#22547282)
Modern medicine treats alcohol abuse and addiction as similar to other chemical dependencies.

I don't know what to tell you. Your callous dismissal of the seriousness of alcohol dependency is an ideological position, not one based on reason or science.

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Re:Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence i... by snurfer on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:58PM (#22547394)
Excuse me, but I offer a rational alternative to the religion of Alcoholics Anonymous. Would you say AA is the bastion of reason and science?
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Re:Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence i... by jerf on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:10PM (#22548518)
No, you didn't. First you insulted, then you corrected someone, now you're trying to raise a flamewar smokescreen. Please just stop.
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Re:Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence i... by dang on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:49PM (#22550365)
Please stop doing flamewar on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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