By: Rod Swift
Re: From AANews #153...

     COURT AGAIN STRIKES DOWN RELIGION-BASED ''RECOVERY'' PROGRAM

   Drug use, both "legal" and "illegal", is a complex phenomenon and
the basis of considerable argument and disagreement for social
scientists, politicians, behavioral experts and law enforcement
officials.  Many non-believers find the emphasis on a "higher power"
and other religious trapping of AA and related programs to be
invasive, insulting and unworkable.  For these individuals, there are
alternatives. Rational Recovery hosts a web site at
http://rational.org/recovery, and publishes a "Journal of Rational
Recovery."  While RR says that it is "a friend of organized religion
worldwide" and that its technique "dovetails with any theology or
religious education program," it opposes forced participation in
religion-based programs.

   Rational Recovery adds that "Publicly-funded agencies that require
or offer only spiritual/religious programs violate Constitutional
rights..." Another information source is Cliff Walker of the Center
for Rational Thought, Inc.  His page may be found at
http://rogue.northwest.com/~crt.