{"id":6579,"date":"2010-05-01T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2010-05-06T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:52:04","slug":"12-step-treatment-more-effective-than-alternative-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/05\/12-step-treatment-more-effective-than-alternative-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Research Summary<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Stanford University found that a *12-step oriented treatment program that included attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings boosted two-year sobriety rates by 30 percent compared to cognitive-behavioral (CB) programs, the BBC reported Jan. 29.<br \/>\nTwelve-step oriented programs also cost 30 percent less than CB-based treatment for addiction, the researchers said.<br \/>\nLead study author Keith Humphreys said the spiritual dimension of AA may explain why recovering alcoholics in such programs are better able to resist the temptation to return to drinking.<br \/>\nThe study appears in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.<br \/>\n*Editor&#8217;s Note, Jan. 31, 2007:<br \/>\nAs originally published on January 30, the title of the summary read: &#8220;AA Boosts Sobriety by 30 Percent, Study Says.&#8221;  We have changed the title and summary to clarify that the researchers studied 12-step oriented treatment programs &#8212; not only AA meetings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Humphreys, K., Moos, R.H. (2007) Encouraging Posttreatment Self-Help Group Involvement to Reduce Demand for Continuing Care Services: Two-Year Clinical and Utilization Outcomes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31(1): 64\u201368; doi: 10.1111\/j.1530-0277.2006.00273.x.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Summary Researchers from Stanford University found that a *12-step oriented treatment program that included attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings boosted two-year sobriety rates by 30 percent compared to cognitive-behavioral (CB) programs, the BBC reported Jan. 29. Twelve-step oriented programs also cost 30 percent less than CB-based treatment for addiction, the researchers said. Lead study author [&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-6579","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\/6579","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=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}