What Rick Alan Ross has said about Alcoholics Anonymous
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026
Rick Alan Ross, American cult intervention specialist, founder of the Cult Education Institute and author of Cults Inside Out, has been quoted on Alcoholics Anonymous 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ross says AA and NA are not destructive cults by his criteria, though he questions AA's effectiveness.
“Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous in and of themselves are not what I would describe as a destructive cult”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 38:52
Ross says a number of cults have covertly recruited vulnerable people at AA meetings.
“there have been a number of cults that have insinuated themselves surreptitiously within AA meetings to recruit people who are vulnerable”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 39:56
Episodes
Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan RossMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik talks with cult expert Rick Alan Ross about how cults recruit and break people down, deprogramming, Scientology, AA, religion and Lev Tahor.
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