12 step facilitation used always or often in 45% of facilities

~ Jason Schwartz

There are a lot of problems in addiction treatment, but 12 step hegemony is not the problem that advocates and media coverage would lead one to believe. (Keep in mind that 12 step facilitation is an evidence-based treatment.)

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2018

It’s worth asking why this is so frequently misrepresented.

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.