Defending Alcoholics Anonymous

I came across an article which criticizes AA using the in my opinion now-debunked 2014 book by Dodes . I have already dealt with why the Dod...

I have found other criticism of AA in the mainstream press over the last year which I should address here in this blog. Naltrexone redux A r...

Pendery 1982 is a study which saw that, over the long term, alcoholics who try moderate drinking only have a 5% success rate. People who wan...

Let me finish off 2018 by taking about how the seminal work refuting the notion that alcoholics can moderate their drinking again, Pendery 1...

Let’s take a look at this article ( original link ); this article is an opinion from 2016 on what the science says about Alcoholics Anonymo...

Let me just post some of my recent disqus postings: The fact is that the Sobell 1973 study [a study which claimed alcoholics could moderat...

An advocate for the Sinclair method pointed out, in an online debate, the study “ Targeted Naltrexone for Problem Drinkers .”  Here is my re...

I look at two papers in this blog entry , one of which will be questionable, the other of which is well written. The Alcohol industry is f...

Audrey Kis hline was the fo under of the group "Moder ation Management", which pretended that chronic alcoholics could drink mod...

A brief FAQ 1 Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous 2 Other data that is inaccurate 2.1 Randomized controlled trials 2.2 Brandsma ...

I am not about to read, much less point by point refute, all of Gabrielle Glaser's over 8000 word anti-AA screed published in The Atlant...