Stanton Peele

About the author: Stanton Peele is a psychologist, researcher, and the author of Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control. Peele has also published numerous articles in magazines and journals.

Audrey Kishline, the founder of Moderation Management, made national headlines on March 25, 2000, when she killed a father and his daughter in a drunk-driving accident. Kishline believed that problem drinkers could return to levels of moderate drinking and promoted this idea through her alternative alcohol therapy program, Moderation Management (MM). Critics have seized the opportunity to use Kishline's accident as final proof that MM is a failure and that abstinence is the only solution. However, Kishline had left MM and rejoined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) at the time of the accident...