Alcoholics Anonymous: treatment effectiveness and changing mechanism

Abstract

Alcohol abuse is highly prevalent in our society and often requires ongoing episodes of care over many years to achieve sustained remission. Alcoholics Anonymous(A.A.) play an important role in recovery from alcohol addiction. This paper describes the nature of A.A. and reviews evidence for their effectiveness and illuminates potential change mechanisms in A.A.. The findings of the study suggest that interventions on alcoholics should focus on increasing social support. A better understanding of alcoholics anonymous is expected to render development in more effective interventions for Alcoholics in the future.