Women and Men Appear to Benefit in Different Ways From AA Participation
Women and men appear to benefit in different ways from AA participation
Filed under: alcohol addiction
Kelly and Hoeppner analyzed data from more than 1,700 participants, 24 percent of whom were women, enrolled in a federally funded trial called Project MATCH that compared three approaches to alcohol addiction treatment. Participants in the trial were …
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The Stampede: Alcohol
Filed under: alcohol addiction
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that teens that start drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to develop an alcohol addiction than those who do not begin drinking until they are the legal age of 21 …
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Jane Velez-Mitchell on Conquering Her Alcohol Addiction (Media Beat 1 of 3)
Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of Issues on HLN knows a thing or two about addictions. She’s a recovering alcoholic, and she’s writing about addictions — all kinds — in her new book Addict Nation. In this week’s Media Beat, we talk about that, and her “interim” job at HLN that’s now going on two and a half years.