Defending Alcoholics Anonymous

While there hasn’t been any mainstream press criticizing AA’s efficacy recently, I think, while Dodes’s figures are now outdated and discred...

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...

Critics of the 12-step programs attempt to discredit the longitudinal studies, which show a 67-75% success rate for AA: They don’t like th...

Charlie Sheen, back in 2011, claimed that Alcoholics Anonymous has only a 5% success rate . Thankfully, over the years, he realized that tho...

Since Moos and Moos 2006 invalidates a central thesis of Dodes' false claim that Alcoholics Anonymous has a 5% success rate, Dodes goes...