Alcoholics Anonymous most effective path to alcohol abstinence

From article found here from Stanford Medical School A Stanford researcher and two collaborators conducted an extensive review of Alcoholics Anonymous studies and found that the fellowship helps more people achieve sobriety than therapy does. Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide fellowship of sobriety seekers, is the most effective path to abstinence,…

Perseverance in the road to recovery

perseverance/pəːsɪˈvɪər(ə)ns/noun persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. "his perseverance with the technique illustrates his single-mindedness" Getting sober is difficult to really achieve, the mindset that no matter what happens to me, drinking alcohol will never be part of the solution. The idea that I will turn over…

Forgiveness

Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next, we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider…