Originally Posted by
Greenwood618 
Mental health professionals who have never been addicts are clueless and cannot be trusted, they all believe in Oprah recovery group crap and will prescribe group recovery and automatically dismiss self help, as they incorrectly view excessive drinking as a disease.
In my experience, this is not true. All generalizations are false. Well, that has to be a false statement. Most generalizations are false. Some generalizations are false. OK, the generalization above is false.