Alcoholics Anonymous: Still Sober After 75 Years

Insulin after 75 years: still a heroic hormone.

first reported their success in preparing a pancreas extract that dramatically lowered blood glucose levels in diabetic dogs in early 1922.' As early as the Spring of 1922, remarkably fast time by today's standards, this achievement was followed by successful clinical trials in humans that demonstrated the effectiveness of the pancreas extract in lowering glucose levels and preventing death fro...

Alcoholics Anonymous: cult or cure?

OBJECTIVE To discuss the mechanism of action, the efficacy and the safety of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the treatment of alcoholism. METHOD The published works on effective treatments for alcoholism is briefly reviewed and a prospective multidisciplinary follow-up of recovery from alcoholism in two community cohorts of adolescent males followed from 1940 until the present day is reviewed. ...

Special populations in Alcoholics Anonymous.

The vast majority of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members in the United States are white, and only a few studies have investigated the program's effectiveness for ethnic minorities. Project MATCH, a multisite research study aimed at developing guidelines for assigning alcoholics to appropriate treatment approaches, also assessed AA effectiveness for minority clients. Some differences in AA attenda...

A review of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Narcotics Anonymous programs for teens.

The investigation of the applicability of Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous (AA/NA) for teens has only been a subject of empirical research investigation since the early 1990s. In the present review, the author describes teen involvement in AA/NA programming, provides an exhaustive review of the outcomes of 19 studies that used an AA/NA model as part of their formal teen substance abuse ...

The Bethe ansatz after 75 years