Please Talk in the 1st person, about Alcoholics Anonymous being an antiqued system when it comes to recovery. How is a person, who is not only biologically wired to want to drink, but also now has an ingrained positive reward feedback loop to their brain meant to “pray” their addiction away? Don’t get me wrong, there are aspects of AA that I think benefit the individual and that's their sponsorship system. But not much else.
Talk about Ketamine treatment: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/24million-to-fund-largest-ever-trial-of-ketamine-assisted-therapy-for-alcohol-disorder/32294
This is a great article to use. Please list the benefits they are seeing.
Finally, discuss how we need to look at more ways to treat people with addiction other than just an 8-week rehab program, followed by a 12 steps with the expectation of being 100% abstinence isn’t possible. In fact, I think it’s dangerous and I will discuss that next week.