Similar to the article I found last week, this article talks about AA’s affect on another kind of addiction-sexual. Tiger Woods’ press conference sparked discussions all over the nation: Was he sincere? Was it all fake? Was it scripted? A reporter from The New York Times wrote an article, “A Script, or Woods’s Road to Recovery?” because of a conversation he had in a bar similar to this. He wrote about how a man said Woods sounded scripted yet the statement he posed to the reader was, “as if that was so bad”. He then goes onto saying that this was a script he was reciting from, it is the first of the 12 steps program of addiction treatment. He refers to the “collective wisdom” of AA as the root of his script and has collective wisdom hyperlinked to the AA website. The author talks about the importance of these treatment programs like AA and how they get into the root of the problem, the emotional side, not just teaching you how to not drink, have sex, or do drugs.
I know that after Woods’ public apology came out, it was a big debate about whether or not it was real or fake. I feel as though this article does a great job supporting what AA and other addiction treatment programs do and really stands up for Woods in addition to all over recovering addicts out there. For people who have no personal experience with these programs, trying to understand that this was in fact genuine and only sounded scripted because it is a part of the program is hard, but this author makes it easier. This author makes AA and those programs shine.
Find article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/sports/golf/23vecsey.html
Can't Tiger's admission also have the opposite effect? Don't some get tired of the addiction "excuse", so to speak. I don't know if sex addiction is the same as alcohol addiction. I'm fortunate enough to not be addicted to either--where is the line between addiction and "liking a whole lot". But I"m afraid that Tiger's admission is not so helpful to those in AA...
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