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Pre AA abstinence

Posted on September 29, 2008

More evidence that people with more severe alcohol problems benefit most from AA (from the firewalled full text):The current findings support the hypothesis that 12-step self-help group attendance is most beneficial for patients who have not achieved abstinence. Specifically, among patients who had not achieved abstinence 1 year after treatment, those who attended 12-step self-help groups relatively frequently (10 meetings or more in a 3-month interval at year 1) were significantly more likely to be abstinent at long-term follow-up than were those who either did not attend self-help groups or ...

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