Charlie Sheen's out of the AA 'troll hole'

Charlie Sheen's out of the AA 'troll hole': "Mr. Sheen's bare-fanged fury notwithstanding, he has said nothing that Stanton Peele, a renowned addiction expert, has not said before him. The author of 'Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control' has strongly opposed the 'troll' treatment model, which relies on scare tactics and junk science to gain lifelong, unrivaled control over patients.

The object of Sheen's barbs on the 'Today' show shifted to the AA's '5 percent success rate.' Not even addiction agony aunt Dr. Drew Pinsky could dispute Sheen's irreverent but oh-so-right recitation of AA's record. 'He's got a point,' Pinsky admitted to TMZ.com. 'Their success rates aren't that great ... but it does work when people do it.'

Precisely: Addicts are 'cured' when they decide to give up the habit. 'Those who beat their addictions do so, in every case, by aligning themselves with their own values and purpose in life,' writes Peele."