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Ikimulisa
Sockwell-Mason and
Jessica Graham; New York Post; 2000-07-06. Posted:
2001-01-27; Modified: 2006-03-04.
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Date:
Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:25:30 EDT
The famed Smithers rehab clinic - where many hot and high celebrities
have gone to kick their bad habits - is hopping on a different wagon
called Moderation Management.
Manhattan's West Side Smithers Addiction Treatment and Research
Center has had a number of star clients - including Joan Kennedy, Truman
Capote
But now, after decades of following Alcoholics Anonymous' guidelines of
abstinence, center counselors have eased the rules.
The 12 steps have been cut down to nine, according to New York
magazine, and Smithers counselors have adopted a more touchy-feely
approach to recovery.
The MM program allows women members nine drinks a week and men up to 14.
For dedicated AA members the very idea of drinking is "stupid."
A woman emerging from a packed AA meeting on
Manhattan's East Side yesterday said, "All it takes is one drink to take
you right back from where you were.
"I've tried moderation and I ended up back in rehab," she said. "As much
as many of us would like to believe that we could go back to one or two
drinks,
A 29-year-old woman, who was at the same meeting, claimed "There's no
such thing as moderation. The ones who sit there and say they can do it
are the ones
Dr. Alex DeLuca, chief of addiction at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital,
told New York that Smithers is changing its approach because the
traditional methods don't
More than 50 volunteer-run groups following MM have sprouted in the last
few years.
The change in rehab doctrine is one that's gathered support in recent
years. It's also garnered its share of critics.
One of them is Audrey Kishline, who in 1993 founded a national group
promoting moderate drinking for problem drinkers. Last March, she was
allegedly driving drunk when her car slammed into another vehicle,
killing a man and his daughter.
Kishline, 43, goes on trial for vehicular homicide in September. Through
her lawyer, she recently stated that Moderation Management "is nothing
but alcoholics covering up their problem."
Paul Wood, former president of the National Council on Alcoholism and
Drug Dependence, calls moderation for alcoholics "a deadly piece of
advice."
"If you are an alcoholic, you can't drink," he said. [END Post article - START dopey ADD_MED listServ discussion]
From
the NY Post! =========================================================================
Date:
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:49:12 EDT
Herb,
Gary
Stofle =========================================================================
Date:
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:21:16 +0200
Two
months before the auto crash which killed two people, Kishline
It
seems inappropriate to use this tragedy as evidence against any of Robin Room
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Date:
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:25:27 EDT
-Herb
Subject:
Smithers Foundation response
Adele
Smithers-Fornaci, president of the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation
If
you are unfamiliar with the story, here there links to three related
stories that If you have any problems with the links, send me an email and I will paste-in the stories.
Original
story in the July 10, 2000 issue of New York Magazine which hit
New
York Post story, which ran on Monday, July 3, 2000
New
York column by Susan Konig, which ran on Wednesday, July 5, 2000 [END] |
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