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How to stay sober: recovery without religion. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-438-9. OCLC 17385031. Christopher, James (1992). SOS sobriety: the proven alternative to 12-step programs. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-726-4. OCLC 25411883. Christopher, James (1989). Unhooked: staying sober and drug-free.
The Step Working Guides is a workbook ... 74.8% of regular 12-step attenders self-reported being completely sober, but only 40% of people who did not go to 12-step ...
Bill W. met Dr. Bob in May 1935, and the men shared their stories with one another. The two began to work on how to best approach alcoholics and began trying to help men recover from alcoholism. The idea for the book developed when Bill W. and Dr. Bob realized their system had helped over 40 men stay sober for more than 2 years.
Average member sobriety is slightly under 10 years with 36% sober more than ten years, 13% sober from five to ten years, 24% sober from one to five years, and 27% sober less than one year. [93] Before coming to AA, 63% of members received some type of treatment or counseling, such as medical, psychological, or spiritual.
Some medical professionals have criticized twelve-step programs as "a cult that relies on God as the mechanism of action" and as lacking any experimental evidence in favor of its efficacy. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Ethical and operational issues had prevented robust randomized controlled trials from being conducted comparing twelve-step programs ...
Barrymore first revealed in December 2021 that she had been sober for 2 1/2 years following her divorce from Will Kopelman, with whom she shares daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8. She told CBS ...
Now on the other side, eight years sober this month, “My drug is #growth,” the newly minted author tells Yahoo Entertainment. “Most people don't make it out of that life of excess. Some ...
The organization's name is often ascribed to Janet G. Woititz (c. 1939 – June 7, 1994), an American psychologist and researcher best known for her writings and lectures on the adult children of alcoholic parents, and author of the 1983 book Adult Children of Alcoholics.