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0 pointssneak4y ago0 comments

> no one claims attending a meeting with a few random people and talking is a "recovery program" by any stretch of imagination. they're completely different things.

In my experience that is a false claim: AA/NA proponents frequently assert that they can help you recover from addiction.

Their religion-based system has about the same probability of helping you recover from addiction as not going to AA/NA.

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placer4y ago

>Their religion-based system has about the same probability of helping you recover from addiction as not going to AA/NA.

Not this again. We know for a fact that treatments which encourage people to be a part of AA fellowships result in a significantly higher rate of abstinence from alcohol. [1]

See Ycombinator discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545557

This doesn’t mean AA is for everyone, but it does show that Alcoholics Anonymous is quite helpful for a significant subset of alcoholics.

[1] John Kelly, et. al. “Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12‐step programs for alcohol use disorder” Cochrane 2020 PMC7065341 (open access, no paywall: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7065341/ )

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