A Mischievous Suggestion

Advice to AA

I WOULD LIKE to predict that, as fellow workers in the field of drug dependence, we will cease altogether our occasional belittling of Alcoholics Anonymous. We should know by now that AA has a record infinitely better than our own in actually helping people to stop drinking. AA, of course, is an especially comfortable target, because it is very large, relatively easy to dissect, and entirely unwilling to defend itself. AA never asks for either criticism or advice, and although I am disinclined to attack it, I am urged to offer some unsolicited advice.