AA and other meetings benefit variety of alcoholics

~ Jason Schwartz

A PIRE study found that:

Researchers studied 227 recovering alcoholics following treatment, and found that greater attendance of AA or other meetings resulted in improved rates of abstinence or in less intensive alcohol consumption in the event of relapse. These beneficial effects were not influenced by gender, religious preferences, psychiatric disorders or whether the patient had prior attendance at AA or other groups.

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.