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 Jack and Lois Trimpey
Co-Founders, Rational Recovery
While addiction results in well-deserved mistrust, our purpose is to identify those addicted people who can do better independently than as participants in recovery groups and addiction treatment services. Released from the grip of recovery groups, many chronic relapsers discover that planned, permanent abstinence is quite easy, immediately feels good, and provides perpetual dividends.
While Rational Recovery does not offer or encourage clinical services for addiction, case management services are crucial in order to provide the advocacy that will be necessary in order to allow addicted people to take on the image of normal, healthy individuals who have the soundness of judgment to abstain from alcohol and other drugs. When voluntary, addiction treatment would not have the discriminatory and punitive quality that characterizes mandated services.
Informed Consent
 Our rationale for the Opt-Out Initiative is that while the public may rightly expect that some people abstain from
alcohol and other drugs, it is in no one’s legitimate interest how an addicted person might become abstinent.
Informed consent is the keystone of our entire health and social service system, and it is crucial in the addictions field, where highly controversial concepts, such as the disease/treatment concept of addiction, are promulgated as if they were fact. Below is some crucial information that every addicted person should know, and which
professionals should take into account in their counseling, treatment planning, and case management services.
- Over 60 % of successful recoveries from addiction to alcohol and other drugs takes place independently, without the use of recovery groups, counseling services, or addiction treatment (The Grapevine, May, 2001). Unfortunately, clients of public agencies get the mistaken impression that attending recovery groups is essential to abstinence, or highly correlated with abstinence. 2. The abstinent outcome...»»
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