Introducing the Gold Standard for alcohol addiction recovery! This is the path I wish I knew about back in 2009 when I was getting sober. Or better yet, I wish I knew about it years earlier when I first realized I had a problem with alcohol.

Katie Lain from Thrive Alcohol Recovery shares with us her journey of accidentally getting sober while using Sinclair Method. She'll also unpack what ex AA's struggle with when they come to her program after AA doesn't work for them.

And best of AA Katie shares about how The Sinclair Method is the "easier softer way" AA said didn't exist yet. Well flash forward from when the AA Big Book was written in the 1930s and we do have a pill that can make a normal drinker out of a problematic drinker. It's called Naltrexone, is generic, cheap and works for 78% of those who try it according the science.

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Timestamps:

00:00 The Gold Standard For Alcohol Addiction Recovery

05:40 How Katie Drank Her Way Sober

08:40 Sinclair Method Results Are Gradual

13:04 AA Is Complex

21:11 A Pill "To Make A Normal Drinker"

24:43 Feeling Traumatized By AA

29:21 TSM is "The Easier Softer Way"

31:50 Possible Naltrexone Side Effects

37:40 How To Get Naltrexone

39:52 Drinking Moderately After Abstinence

54:53 Naltrexone Can Reduce Alcohol Cravings + Obsession

57:32 Replacing AA Ideology With Modern Science

1:09:47 Most Surprising Thing With SInclair Method

1:14:21 Changing The Mainstream Recovery Narrative

1:25:27 Best Time To Start Naltrexone

1:41:28 TSM Has A 78% Success Rate

1:54:08 Needing More Support With Naltrexone

2:01:08 Be Your Own Recovery Advocate

2:06:52 "Relapse"

Resources for deconstructing AA:

👉 Deprogram Lounge (community, Zooms, book club, Escape Kit + more)

📚 Deprogram Book List (my fave deprogram, cult recovery and critical thinking books)

🌀 Deprogram AA Course (free your mind at your own pace)

Let’s get f*cking free