Posted by HenryO on February 13, 2004, at 0:20:06
In reply to Re: AA and meds, posted by Dalilah on February 11, 2004, at 14:47:50
I know from experience at least half of us drunks are on meds and the other half need to be. AA is a bunch of different people. If you don't like what you hear forget them and go to a different meeting. We get there by being sick so everyone there is sort of nuts. But to say AA did not accept you is silly. The people at a particular meeting may be intolerant, that does not mean AA as a whole shares their opinion. It is an orginization for alcoholism, naturally if you are talking mostly about mental health and depression that could be tricky. I have never heard anybody at any meeting ever in 20 years tell somebody not to take their meds. There are the occasional nazis who think that the big book solves all problems. But that is directly addressed under "problems other than alcohol." Meds are not AA's focus of course, we have only one reason for existing. I don't talk about meds much at meetings because we are there to talk about alcoholism. I deal with other issues at different places with the appropriate people.
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