Helping other alcoholics in alcoholics anonymous and drinking outcomes: findings from project MATCH.

Controlling for Endogeneity Biases in Estimating Alcoholics Anonymous’ Effect on Drinking Outcomes in Project MATCH

Alcoholics Anonymous-Related Helping and the Helper Therapy Principle.

The helper therapy principle (HTP) observes the helper's health benefits derived from helping another with a shared malady. The HTP is embodied by the program of Alcoholics Anonymous as a method to diminish egocentrism as a root cause of addiction. This article reviews recent evidence of the HTP in alcohol populations, extends to populations with chronic conditions beyond addiction, and conclud...

Slipping and sobriety; the functions of drinking in Alcoholics Anonymous.

A.A. groups create pressures and provide expectations that encourage some members to resume drinking. Members' responses to these relapses contribute to group solidarity and strengthen the boundaries between the norms of sobriety and deviant behavior.

Predictors of drinking outcomes among alcoholics.

Predicting outcomes for individual patients entering substance abuse treatment has long been a clinical goal in the addictions field. Intake data from the Addiction Severity Index and other standardized scales were collected on 248 alcohol dependent/abusing patients entering an urban hospital treatment program. The outcome measure was frequency of drinking days in the past 30 days. Baseline dat...

Evaluating Alcoholics Anonymous's effect on drinking in Project MATCH using cross-lagged regression panel analysis.

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study is to determine whether Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) participation leads to reduced drinking and problems related to drinking within Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity), an existing national alcoholism treatment data set. METHOD The method used is structural equation modeling of panel data with cross-lagged partial regressio...