Adjunctive therapy with AA

Self-help and other supports bolster treatment success

Combining treatment with self-help programs, such as the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program, also improves outcomes, and is more effective than either treatment or self-help participation alone.

Attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings is significantly related to post-treatment abstinence. Although mandated AA attendance alone, without treatment, has not been proven effective, one major study showed AA to be as effective as treatment.

Research report; Runder the Influence Part 2: Treating Addictions, Reducing Corrections Costs. Katherine Merrow & Richard A. Minard , Jr. February 5, 2003. New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies in association with the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research, University of New Hampshire

BriefTSF can be used successfully in the correction setting