At first glance, the notion of individuals with serious, objectively verifiable, cognitive and
social impairments being able to facilitate life-saving changes in similarly impaired …

ABSTRACT Mutual-help groups (MHGs), such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have been
shown to be helpful to a broad range of individuals suffering from substance use disorders …

Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) is an international nonprofit
organization that provides free, selfempowering, science-based mutual aid groups for …

Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are highly prevalent in the United States and often are chronic
conditions that require ongoing episodes of care over many years to achieve full sustained …

Aims: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the most prevalent 12-step mutual-help organization
(MHO), yet debate has persisted clinically regarding whether patients whose primary …

For more than 150 years, the transition from intractable addiction to stable recovery has
often involved two quite different worlds:(1) professionally directed addiction treatment …

Self-help organizations across the world, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Croix D'Or, The
Links, Moderation Management, Narcotics Anonymous, and SMART Recovery, have …

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members' self-reports (N= 263) of “hitting bottom” and seeking
help were analyzed using 1-way analysis of variance and chi-square analyses of 23 …

Aims and methods This paper provides an overview of some of the probable active
ingredients of self‐help groups in light of four related theories that identify common social …

Abstract Because Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an important resource for recovering
alcoholics, most treatment centers want to work cooperatively with it. To identify factors that …