Seeking Help Could Quadruple the Likelihood of Abstinence
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
To quantify the effect of help seeking on recovery from alcoholism, researchers in the United States analyzed data from 4,422 adults who had participated in a nationally representative survey and developed alcohol dependence at least 1 year before their participation.
Only 26 percent of subjects had ever sought help for their alcohol problems; 3 percent participated in a 12-step program only, 6 percent in formal treatment only, and 17 percent in both.
Help seekers drank more and had higher lifetime prevalences of other drug use, mood disorders, and personality disorders than did subjects who had not sought help.
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