Recovery groups are strongly pro-addiction, and the auxiliary family recovery groups are anti-family. The recovery group is his new family, and he is told you will never really understand him because he’s an alcoholic/addict. How nice.
Trust your intuitions! Addiction is just as ugly as it appears.
There is no treatment for the pretend disease of addiction;
only pretend treatments and fellowships of addiction.
However, any moron can not do something.
Although no one ever gets better in recovery groups,
people quit drinking/using all the time.
You probably know someone who has,
maybe even in your own family or neighborhood.
As long as people think addiction is or is caused by a disease,
they can’t do anything about it but seek worthless help.
These are quotes from Jack Trimpy's site and one of the reasons that Rational Recovery is one of the few "programs" that is not welcome here. They don't believe in 12 step programs even though millions have found sobriety there.
They don't believe in "codependency" but would most certainly like to control how we think. Oh yeah, they'd like to charge us money for all this too.
We don't DO control on this site. So Daniel, if Rational Recovery is your program of choice, please go to their site and play there.