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A Highly Effective Program for Alcohol Dependence and Alcoholism

The St. Jude Program (soberforever.net) appears to be the most effective approach to alcohol dependence and alcoholism in the world. It is conducted by the by the not-for-profit Baldwin Research Institute.

Independently-conducted research has established an overall success rate of 63.5% for the St. Jude Program. This compares to a success rate in the range of 0-20% for conventional programs. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) reports a success rate lower than 5%. Research also indicates that no treatment at all has a success rate of about 30%. This suggests that traditional programs are less effective than doing nothing.

The program is radically different from traditional approaches and has been described in this way:

• The St. Jude Program is a social/educational model for eliminating substance abuse. It teaches people how to take responsibility for their choices regarding drinking and/or drugging, and then, how to live a quality of life that is successful and filled with the rewards of their success.
• The educational experience is an entirely different approach from the more common counseling and therapeutic approach. These conventional methods, 12- step and therapy-based models, strip individuals of their native and internal human solution: choice, accountability and power. The educational approach awakens or reawakens, those same concepts: choice, accountability and power; in a clear and concise manner thereby empowering the student to accept personal responsibility for all past, present and future behavior, to exercise choice from internal strength, not perceived weakness, and to delight in the rediscovery of their own power from within.
• The approach is straightforward. Students learn how to make better choices, and find success and satisfaction using a method they can see works for others.
• Students are responsible for changing their own lives as they are the only ones with the power to do just that. And they remain responsible for their own decisions.
• The educational program teaches students how to assess the seriousness of their situation and to determine how committed they are to achieving succes in their lives and remaining permanently abstinent.
• Students are then taught how to become more useful and happy individuals. this portion of the program is completely separate from the sobriety issue. Sobriety is a choice based static event. However, building a life of one's own choosing is a series of choices and events that will bring about changes and continue to evolve throughout the remainder of one's life. These are separate issues and are dealt with separately. Students learn how to achieve success in both the sobriety event and in the continuing process called living.Clearly, the St. Jude Program is unlike any other alcohol rehab or drug rehab.

The program, which is not affiliated with any religion or organized belief system, is available in residential form and in distance-learning form.

The St. Jude program is also useful for bulemia, obesity, sexual addiction and other "addictions" or problems.

 

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