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    Calling all UK MWO'ers :-)

    Hi, ladies and gents. An associate recently pointed out my book's listing on Amazon UK. I was disheartened to see the review and its ranking compared to that of the US because I don't believe it reflects the sentiment shared by our UK friends. In fact, after reading the feedback, I had to wonder if it was written by the same British physician who deleted our Wikipedia entry describing My Way Out. (I wrote about that experience here.)

    I don't mind a harsh review, but I was a bit offended that the reader felt my book's primary agenda was to promote Topamax or a pharmaceutical company. Anyone who understands the program is fully aware that our focus is multi-faceted and that medication--if adopted--is only one therapeutic element of an integrative approach.

    Amazon reviews are really important to any author--and critical for a small publishing company like ours. We're proud of the feedback and ranking we've earned on Amazon US, where sales continue to grow. It's one of the best ways to share our program and encourage new membership here on the forum because we include the web address in the book.

    I'd like to ask a favor of any of you who live in the UK and have read the book. Would you be willing to provide an honest review? You'll find the [ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976247909/102-7624791-5116949?v=glance&n=283155]US Amazon listing here[/ame] and [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Out-Remarkable-Overcoming-Innovative/dp/0976247909/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-2037368-2573508?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194360882&sr=8-1]the UK one here    [/ame]. (I'm not sure if feedback is limited to UK citizens--of course I would welcome reviews from all members.)

    The existing UK feedback actually reminds me of how far we?ve come because the reviewer?s thinking was much more pervasive when I first published My Way Out two years ago. You simply didn?t treat alcohol addiction as you did any other medical condition, so meds rarely entered the equation. I believe we?re making great strides. We can finally begin to eliminate the stigma and shame associated with alcohol dependence and treat it objectively. We can offer patients nutrition, medicine, behavioral strategies, dietary modifications, exercise--and support in a venue in which they are comfortable. Every day we learn more about how neurotransmitters in the brain lead to addictive behavior, and what we can do to interrupt that process. We can also adopt many alternative therapies and customize an approach to find something that really works. It?s an exciting time for change. I?m not sure that British doctor gets it, but I know many of you do.

    Thanks in advance to those who are willing to help. I believe it will bring new readers to the book, to this site, and to a new path of sobriety. J

    RJ
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    #2
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    Below is the rather damning review by a Doctor in London!! It is the one and only review of the book which by all accounts 4 people have found useful. I think you are right RJ a few reviews from actual members of the MWO program would certainly go along way in refuting this Doctor's claims. I'm only a new member here myself and I am comfortable with my own methods of sobriety at present but I have certainly gained an insight into what the program entails from friends I have made here over the last 6 weeks or so!!

    Love and Happiness
    Hippie
    xx


    Like many readers, I approached this book with some sense of hope and promise. However, after reading this slim volume, it feels as though the primary agenda behind this book is to promote the drug Topamax (which has not been approved for the treatment of alcoholism). Pseudonymously authored and filled with legal caveats, this book reads as though it were commissioned by a pharmaceutical company.

    The clincher came when I failed to find any other publication by Capalo Press. Is this a vanity publication? A real disappointment.
    "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
    Clean and sober 25th January 2009

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      #3
      Calling all UK MWO'ers :-)

      I don't live in the UK, but I hope all of you who do will take this seriously.

      We all know MWO is serious and sincere. It has helped many people, and there is absolutely no downside to it-- you take it, make it what you want, or leave it. No strings attached. And a great website that also has no strings attached.

      Anyway, I hope my UK friends will rally to RJ's call. I know for a fact this is the best thing out there for a large amount of people. Don't let others get the wrong impression.
      Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

      Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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        #4
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        Will do; that is a truly mind-numbingly unpleasant and quite daft review from Dr. Pompous.

        May I apologise profusely on behalf of we UK MWO-ers, RJ!

        Grrrrrr!

        Love FMS xx
        :heart: c: :heart:
        "Be patient and gentle with yourself - the magic is in you."

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          #5
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          RJ, absolutely definitely will ........... some of us brits are nice you know ..........
          sigpicXXX

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            #6
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            Sorry about the doc`s unfairly negative review, RJ. I`ve posted a review on Amazon. Your programme and yourself are amazing.

            Starlight Impress x

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              #7
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              Thank you....

              :h

              RJ
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                #8
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                Are you sure that Doc has a license to practice medicine?
                After reading that I might believe rather than an MD, BA,BS, MS or , ect...
                they have a DUI from Community College!
                The only thing worth stealing is a kiss...:flower: zwink:

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                  #9
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                  Dr. Pompous's ignorance is unreal.
                  I'm really easy to get along with once people learn to worship me

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                    #10
                    Calling all UK MWO'ers :-)

                    RJ: I've never even been to the UK but . . . This comming Friday, April 9, I will have 7 months alcohol free, not a sip. I owe this entirely to your program as outlined in your book and this site. Thank you. I shudder to think about what shape I'd be in now if I had continued drinking two to three bottles of wine every day.

                    I found this purported Doctor's comments about your book to be offensive and irresponsible. Afterall, isn't the first tenet of the Hippocratic Oath: "First do no harm."? If I had read this person's review of MWO prior to starting, I may never have started your program and could be well on my way to liver damage, pancreatitis, high blood pressure or a car crash.

                    I have to think there are powerful vested economic interests that wish to insure that the conventional form of "treatment" maintains its hegemony.

                    It would be an interesting useless fact to know if "The Big Book" was first published by a "vanity publisher".

                    Best wishes.

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                      #11
                      Calling all UK MWO'ers :-)

                      Barry - brilliant!

                      It was, wasn't it? I mean, that's why it's called The Big Book...published on huge paper because it was cheaper that way. I'm not sure what a 'vanity publisher' actually is, except that it comes over as a derogatory term in Dr. Pompous' review. If it means that a book is published by its author on their own because they think it's really good and 'real' publishers don't then the BB was published thus. And it struggled a great deal in its early days.

                      Just a thought - (cynical I'm afraid) - do docs like the 'old ways' because they can just shunt people into a corner where continued, intelligent thought isn't required from them anymore? Here, they are required to continue to monitor, deal with moderating, deal with vitamins and diet, prescribe expensive drugs to a 'patient' with a 'disease' they would rather not contemplate...where's the crossing line after all....? Shove them down the road and 'let God do it'.....? (And please don't 'do' me for libel!! There is a place for everyone in this 'battle'.)

                      In the UK the drugs companies rule...and the PHT (Primary Health Trust) and the government and the fund holders and the... and the... and the..... not the patient! Or the doctor! Whatever is said. We might have 'free' health care but the NHS is in tatters. I guess this doc is as cynical and burned out as so many of our wonderful docs are....any form of intelligent thought is stamped on by politicians. That's probably why he's been shoved down a back alley to review new books....actually, come to think of it, knowing our system today, I feel quite sorry for Dr. P now!!

                      Really cynical I know but the lack of medical knowledge and open-mindedness about progress in the understanding of 'plain-old-drinking' even, let alone alocholism, is tragic....

                      In the UK last weekend I was shocked to see a headline in a major Sunday newspaper that "Treatment for under-age drinking rises by 400% in the last year"..... I can't beleive it was 400%; it must have been 100% surely....but even 100% is terrifying. And still the adverts. go on and the manufacturers go on making 'enticing' alcopops.... And this is 'just' under-age drinking too! Let alone the 'over-age' stuff!

                      Bl***y money!! I hate the exploitation of people's sanity in this world - through drink, food, stress, cosmetics,... Whatever 'they' both promote and report on seems so transparent to me....how do 'they' get away with it?!

                      Right, end of soap box! RJ, you are amazing...stand firm (which, of course, you wil!)against the tide of stupidity; we're all behind you! And very, very, very gratefuly too!

                      FMS xx
                      :heart: c: :heart:
                      "Be patient and gentle with yourself - the magic is in you."

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                        #12
                        Calling all UK MWO'ers :-)

                        bumping this for all to see
                        You can't turn a pickle into a cucumber

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                          #13
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                          Yes I agree, let's rally. RJ deserves that at the very least. I will even disguise myself if I need too
                          "Keep your eyes and heart focused on the end goal at all times, and never settle for less."

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                            #14
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                            Somebody was kind enough to point out to me there was an error on my previos post on this thread. April 9, 2007 was my first day AF, this Friday, NOVEMBER 9, 2007 is my seven months AF date. Hey, I'm still working on this sober thing. . .

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                              #15
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                              Hey, Barry!! I got it! Never even noticed! "We've got the choice of being right or being human!"
                              Good on you for 7 months!
                              FMS xx
                              :heart: c: :heart:
                              "Be patient and gentle with yourself - the magic is in you."

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