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Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life and I don’t care if that makes me a cliché. When I stopped using opioids cold turkey after an addiction in 2017, my life was a mess, I needed a plan, and AA ...

Long considered a key component of recovery, 12-step programs are as popular as ever. But that doesn’t mean they work for everyone. When he was 16, he got a keg of beer. “Beer made me cool,” Marlon ...

Think of an alcoholic, and the image of someone down and out on a park bench with a bottle in a paper bag might come to mind. Or someone standing up and stating their first name in an Alcoholics ...

I applaud President Donald Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order known as the Great American Recovery Initiative, but I think it should be renamed the Bill W. and Dr. Bob Initiative, after the founders of ...

The well-known program that seeks to help people with alcohol use disorder, Alcoholics Anonymous, has long been criticized for not having the medical research to back up its efficacy. Until now. A new ...

Myths have a way of coming to resemble facts through repetition alone. This is as true in science and psychology as in politics and history. Today few areas of public health are more riven with ...

In one week, my entire world has changed. I went from moving freely around in the world to being largely self-quarantined in the hopes of not catching or spreading COVID-19. And, of course, I’m not ...

After 20 years of increasingly out-of-control drinking and a family in crisis, I went to my first AA meeting. The father of one of my children reached out to me after my daughter fled to his house in ...

It’s a comment I’ve heard often in my years helping those with addictions: “I tried AA, but I just couldn’t get past the God part.” The "God part," of course, refers to the references to God and ...

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was established in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, American men who were significantly influenced by a Christian organization called the Oxford Group. Central to AA ...