Factors That Contribute To Sobriety or Continued Substance Abuse Addiction and the Efficacy of 12 Step Programs



Abstract

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international organization for recovering alcoholics that offers emotional support through self-help groups and a model of abstinence for people recovering from alcoholism, using a 12-step approach. While it is the most common, is not the only AA 12-step intervention available there are other 12-step approaches (Twelve Step Facilitation, TSF). The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of AA or TSF programs compared to other psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol intake, achieving abstinence, maintaining abstinence, improving the quality of life of those affected and their families, and reduce accidents and health problems associated with alcohol. Studies involving adults having age less than 18 years of both sexes attending alcoholism voluntarily or under duress to a program of AA or TSF, compared with no treatment, other psychological interventions, 12-step variants. Eight trials were taken with 3417 people. AA may help patients to accept treatment and keep patients in treatment more than alternative treatments, although the evidence for this is from a small study that combined AA interventions with other interventions and should not be considered conclusive. Other studies reported similar retention rates regardless of treatment group. Three studies compared interventions combined AA with other interventions with other treatments and found little difference in the amount of drinks and percentage of drinking days. Interventions treatments TSF interventions versus control treatments appear to have influenced the severity of addiction and the consequences of alcoholism differentially, and not reported conclusive differences in rates of treatment discontinuation. The included studies did not allow a conclusive assessment of the effects of TSF in promoting complete abstinence.Factors That Contribute To Sobriety or Continued Substance Abuse Addiction and the Efficacy of 12 Step Programs

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Objectives

Evaluate the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) to reduce alcohol intake, achieving abstinence, maintaining abstinence, improving the quality of life of those affected and their families, ...