{"id":1926,"date":"2009-07-17T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:57:15","slug":"aa-attend-early-and-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/aa-attend-early-and-often\/","title":{"rendered":"AA: Attend Early and Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) concurrent with professional treatment appears to improve alcohol outcomes in people with alcohol use disorders. Whether AA alone or the timing of participation (e.g., before or after entering treatment) affects these outcomes is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, researchers assessed remission (no heavy drinking or related problems in the past 6 months) in 362 people with an alcohol use disorder who entered treatment (inpatient or outpatient), AA, or both in the year after they sought help. Subjects were surveyed at baseline and 4 subsequent times over 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Remission was more common in people who had participated in both treatment and AA (e.g., 65 percent at 16 years) followed by AA only (57 percent) and treatment only (50 percent). Differences were significant between the two treatment groups (for 3 of 4 time points).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Remission did not significantly differ between people in treatment only and those who initially received treatment but later entered AA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As duration of AA participation increased, the likelihood of remission significantly increased.<\/p>\n<p><em>Comments Rosanne Guerriero, MPH Richard Saitz, MD, MPH:<\/em> This study supports the notion that long-term participation in AA, particularly when begun soon after seeking help, is an important adjunct to professional treatment for alcohol use disorders. Treatment of alcohol dependence should include referral to mutual help groups and encouragement for patients to continue their participation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Moos RH, Moos BS. Paths of entry into Alcoholics Anonymous: consequences for participation and remission. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2005;29(10):1858-1868.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) concurrent with professional treatment appears to improve alcohol outcomes in people with alcohol use disorders. Whether AA alone or the timing of participation (e.g., before or after entering treatment) affects these outcomes is unclear. In this study, researchers assessed remission (no heavy drinking or related problems in the past 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-treatment-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}