Ep. 342 The Truth About the Rehab Industry and 12-Step
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
About the Guest
Dr. Lance Dodes is professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School.
Book Discussed
The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Other Books by the Guest
The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors
Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction (also available in audiobook)
Guest’s Website
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| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 342. |
| 0:38.3 | What a conversation we have today. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm sorry my voice is still not fully recovered, but good enough to be understood anyway. |
| 0:46.3 | We're talking today to Dr. Lance Dutus, author most recently of the book The Sober Truth, debunking the bad science behind 12-step programs and the |
| 0:57.6 | rehab industry. He is an iconoclast in this way, because of course we all know the pedestal |
| 1:03.4 | on which AA and so-called rehab are placed in our society. So I thought, well, my audience is iconoclastic. Let's talk to Dr. Dodus. |
| 1:14.4 | Dr. Lance Dotus is a training and supervising analyst emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and |
| 1:21.1 | Institute. He recently retired as the Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. |
| 1:28.9 | He's also previously been director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit of Harvard's McLean Hospital, director of the |
| 1:34.4 | Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, which is now part of Mass General, |
| 1:40.1 | and director of the Boston Center for Problem Gambling. Dr. Dodus is the author of other books as well, |
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