Can Humor Medicine Cure Addiction?
By Cliff Kuhn, M.D. The Laugh Doctor “It all starts with a SMILE” People often ask me if the natural medicine of humor can cure addiction. Here is my take on the relationship between recovery from addiction and humor medicine. It took one patient of mine fifteen years of recovery in a twelve step program to be ready for humor medicine. I am not presupposing that everyone should or will have similar experiences, but that’s how long it took her. She is still active in the twelve step program she works. It is a downstream experience for her to go to meetings, share, sponsor, be sponsored, and work the twelve steps. It is a discovery process. And she brings everything she learns about the natural medicine of humor into that twelve step process. It would be “wrong” for me to say to anyone: “You MUST adhere to the 12 step process!” It would be just as “wrong” for anyone to say “You DON’T NEED the 12 step process!” Each of us has our own path. What I will say to someone is, “If you feel like
