Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Some quick bookmarks

Some quick bookmarks:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/.../behavioral-4 

"the efficacy of 12-step programs (and 12-step facilitation) in treating alcohol dependence has been established"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-alcoholics-anonymous-work/ 

"the results of one well-designed investigation called Project Match, published in 1997, suggest that AA can facilitate the transition to sobriety for many alcoholics" 

"research suggests that AA is quite a bit better than receiving no help [...] Of those who attended at least 27 weeks of AA meetings during the first year, 67 percent were abstinent at the 16-year follow-up, compared with 34 percent of those who did not participate in AA"

http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/.../421.long 

"Frequent AA attenders had superior drinking outcomes to non-AA attenders and infrequent attenders."