“I doubt that as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that courts could not dictate attendance at 12 step programs due to the religious nature of those programs.
In what could be a blow to the 12-Step Movement’s stranglehold over substance abuse treatment, an appellate court has ruled that a parolee cannot be ordered into a treatment program that uses the model.”
Is “stranglehold” a word you picked, on your own?
FYI the 12 step groups do NOT ask the courts to send people. They merely sign attendance cards, voluntarily, signifying the person’s attendance, as a courtesy to the court.
The 12 step groups often comment that they do NOT have any legal obligation to sign any attendance cards. Some groups do NOT sign cards, for various reasons.
The 12 step organizations are not money making enterprises, so they don’t want or need a stranglehold on anything.
If you want the court to do something else, plan on an expensive alternative, dreamed up by some professional government employee types, to skirt the “higher power” objection.
AA maintains its “stranglehold” as you call it, by offering an essentially free program, which started in 1935, and has now been translated into 40 languages.
Good luck with the alternative. Sorry it didn’t work out for dead Ricky of Hawaii. All the 12 step alternative wanted to do was help save his life.
Easy there fella, ever hear of cut and paste???? The “offending” paragraphs were taken from the web. Next time I’ll italicize or something, don’t get your knickers in a knot.