03/14/2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/opinion/faith-addiction-treatment.html?smid=url-share
"as we do with other disorders, we need to separate the medical and psychological guidance given in treatment from the ideology of religious support groups. In cancer care, the doctrine of support groups doesn’t dominate treatment. Oncologists, for example, don’t argue that only people who receive chemotherapy count as being in remission, not those who use radiation. The specialty as a whole recognizes that different people need different regimens.
Religious and spiritual support groups can still be critical to cancer care: Some patients couldn’t persist through harrowing treatments without them. But this doesn’t mean that the advice of fellow sufferers supersedes that of physicians — and the same must become true for addiction treatment."
All addiction treatment should be science-based.
