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Resisting 12-Step Coercion : How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment
Peele, Stanton, et al. Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press. March 2000, 204 pages.
 This groundbreaking book provides the intellectual, practical, and scientific background for lay people and professionals to fight against coerced referrals to 12-step addiction treatment and groups. It examines and refutes the disease concept of alcoholism/addiction; details the many ways in which individuals are coerced into 12-step groups and 12-step treatment; analyzes the evidence for the effectiveness (or lack of it) of 12-step groups and 12-step treatment; describes alternate treatments that are effective; demonstrates the many ways in which AA, NA, and treatment based on them are religious in nature; reviews court decisions that have held that AA, NA, and 12-step treatment are religious, and that government coercion of individuals into them violates the First Amendment’s “Establishment Clause”; analyzes how 12-step treatment providers routinely violate standard medical ethics, especially the principle of “informed consent”; and presents case studies of such violations.
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