12-Step versus Medical Treatment

On Linkedin.com a debate has erupted in the past month and I just had to jump in.  The debate centers around medication focused treatments versus the 12-Step program most of us know intimately.  I responded to a Doctor who says that the debate is a false dichotomy and that there is nothing in any medical treatment that says not to work the Steps. I thought how novel that was because it doesn’t have to be either or 

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Yours is the first post I have read on this subject and sober for 22 years plus using AA as my foundation all I can say is that it worked for me.  AA never has much to say only the people in it. I think that for something that was born in 1935 when psychology and pharmacology was more in its infancy than it is today was revolutionary for the time. If not for AA where might all these other protocols be that claim to have a better answer than the one Bill and Bob did without all the technology at their disposal. Too many people want formulaic answers within three easy steps. And I always heard in my meetings that some are sicker than others and that some may need additional help AA never said it was the only way.