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How effective is AVRT?

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How effective is AVRT?

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We must be very cautious about crediting programs, such as Rational Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, or other organization, with the success of individuals who possess free will. AVRT is based on the experience of successful, self-recovered people who have taken full, personal responsibility for acquiring, maintaining, and ending their addictions. Therefore, it is a fundamental error to credit Rational Recovery or AVRT with anyone’s success or failure. As you will see in a study at the next link, some people who learn AVRT and make a commitment to permanent abstinence later change their minds about drinking or using. Why would we call that a failure, or the failure of a program, or even an individual’s failure, if he or she decides to drink or use drugs once again? True, it may be a failure to live up to others’ expectations, or a failure to honor a previous commitment, but has anyone or any program really failed when someone does exactly what he or she wants to do? The idea that recove

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