Beyond Rehab

This list is ever-growing. If you know of any addiction healing/self-empowering resources you would like to see added to this list (or if you hear anything fishy about any on this list) please send me a message through my contact page.

UPDATED 12/21/2010
Here’s a great list of AA alternative resources from http://outreach.stinkin-thinkin.com

• Recovery Resources

  • HAMS: Harm Reduction for Alcohol
  • SMART Recovery
  • Women For Sobriety, Inc.
  • S.O.S. Sobriety
  • Stanton Peele
  • AA – Not The Only Way
  • Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
  • Addiction Alternatives
  • Afflicted and Affected
  • Alternatives for Alcoholism
  • CBT Recovery
  • DBT Self Help
  • F.A.C.T.net
  • Give Up Alcohol
  • GoodTherapy.org
  • How to Quit Drinking without Alcoholics Anonymous
  • How to Stop Drinking Without AA
  • Moderation Management
  • My Way Out
  • Non 12-Step
  • Rational Recovery
  • REBT Network
  • The Albert Ellis Institute
  • The Alcoholism Guide
  • The Sinclair Method

• Blogroll

  • Addiction Inbox
  • Beyond Rehab
  • Escape from Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Fearless Philosophy For Free Minds
  • Living The Dream
  • New Recovery
  • Rationally Speaking
  • Stop 13th Step in AA
  • Stinkin-Thinkin.com
  • The Alcohol Harm Reduction Blog
  • X-Steppers

• Recommended Reading

  • How to Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol
  • In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
  • From Death Do I Part: How I Freed Myself From Addiction
  • A Guide to Rational Living
  • AA – Not The Only Way
  • Alcohol: How to Give It Up and Be Glad You Did
  • Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
  • Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery
  • How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me
  • How to Quit Drinking Without AA
  • How to Stay Sober: Recovery Without Religion
  • LifeRing’s Recovery by Choice Workbook
  • More Revealed Library
  • See Sharp Press
  • Seven Weeks to Sobriety: The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition
  • SMART Recovery Handbook
  • SOS Sobriety: The Proven Alternative to 12-Step Programs
  • The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
  • The Cure for Alcoholism
  • Truth About Addiction and Recovery
  • Unhooked: Staying Sober and Drug-Free
  • When AA Doesn’t Work For You: Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol

• Interesting Articles

  • Exposing quackery and abuse in the addictions treatment industry
  • Once again on the AA dropout rate
  • Recovery Without Religion
  • The Effectiveness of Specific Treatment Approaches
  • Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?
  • Alcoholics Anonymous doesn’t work for everyone — and that’s OK

• Addiction Advocacy/Information

  • AA Cult Watch
  • AA GSO Watch
  • ACTION (Adopting Changes To Improve Outcomes Now) Campaign
  • Addiction Info
  • Addiction Science Network
  • Addiction Technology Transfer Center Program
  • American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
  • California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources
  • Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
  • Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine
  • DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy
  • Faces & Voices of Recovery
  • Join Together
  • Science Based Medicine
  • Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists
  • Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
  • Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
  • The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • The American Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Skeptics Dictionary