Fake ASAM ‘Doctors’ Push AA Cult For Profit.
The blue slides below are from a presentation at the 2014 FSPHP spring meeting in Denver, Colorado and can be seen here. The presentation was given by past FSPHP President Gary Carr, MD, Current FSPHP President Warren Prendergast, MD, West Virginia PHP Director Brad Hall, MD and Montana PHP Director Mike Ramirez, MS.
This needs to be seen as a “to-do” list.
A.A. = ASAM = FSPHP
The quote is from Alcoholics Anonymous and the full passage is as follows:
“We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative. We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health. But we have seen remarkable transformations in our bodies. Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.
But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has…
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Disrupted Physician 
Nanny politics the money stream of “we tax you because it’s good for you” “you are powerless, we are here to help that”. I couldn’t agree more and it’s sad, at one time it was a very inspired program and at one time ANONYMOUS meant something.
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Yes – it is the same group behind drug courts. The “medicalization” of this removed constitutional protections and when these were first implemented some voiced concerns that “treatment” could evolve into an an abusive system of oppression that “discipline ” would never be able to achieve. They were right and it is well in its way. The medical profession is entering a stagnant dictatorial monarchy and when “addiction medicine” is accepted as a specialty it will be a dark age indeed as they will impose this on everyone. And no ones talking about it.
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