Why Do Some People Become Alcoholics and Others Don’t?
Accordingly, abstinence should not be considered a goal in itself but a means to achieve overall social rehabilitation. AA and most other treatment programs generally consider abstinence the only desirable treatment outcome. In general, AA membership was more commonly used as a means of achieving abstinence when the severity of the men’s alcohol-related problems increased. These findings are consistent with other studies that found no differences in outcome whether the patients received inpatient or outpatient treatment or brief interventions (Lindström 1992; Chapman and Huygens 1988). For both the Core City and College samples, stable abstinence was defined as the consuming…