Joseph Gerstein writes: “I am the founding president of SMART Recovery [Self-Management Addiction Recovery Training], a mutual aid group program, science-based and secular. I have spent the last 35 years facilitating 4,000 meetings (almost 800 in prisons and jails) and advocating for Multiple Pathways of Recovery. In the span from January through April 2025, there have appeared three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on various aspects of addictions. Each article recommended SMART Recovery, along with Alcoholics Anonymous, as evidence-based mutual aid resources for people with addictions.” (See the BAM story “12-Step Alternative,” April-May 2024.)
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