naltrexone vs. Alcoholics Anonymous

Name: naltrexone vs. Alcoholics Anonymous
Uploaded: 2024-11-08T16:00:45+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok titled "naltrexone vs. Alcoholics Anonymous." In this spoken segment the presenter argues that…

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Excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok titled "naltrexone vs. Alcoholics Anonymous." In this spoken segment the presenter argues that medication-assisted options (naltrexone, Vivitrol) can be effective outside formal substance-use treatment programs, and that 12-step programs (Alcoholics Anonymous) and abstinence-based approaches do not work for everyone; he references the AA "Big Book" when discussing attempts to find "an easier, softer way."

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If someone is on naltrexone and or vivitrol in the community, you have to be involved in some kind of substance use treatment program for it to be effective. We have found that is simply not true. It can help, and I am not downgrading that at all. But the fact is, the 12 steps don't work for everyone. Fact is, substance use treatment, it just doesn't work for everyone. It just doesn't take for everyone. I just wanted to add in the Big Book, if people are familiar with the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the things that it says is they talk about the 12 steps and they said, we thought we could find an easier, softer way, meaning abstinence, but we could not. Fact is, maybe we have.