Making such a significant life change can cause emotional turmoil, including guilt for past behaviors or burdening others. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or other 12-step programs can offer that social support. Explore Mayo Clinic studies testing new treatments, interventions and tests as a means to prevent, detect, treat or manage this condition. Mutual-support groups like Alcoholics...
They include leadership relapse, struggle for consensus about the program, program infidelity and instability, professionalism, issues of money, and limits of inclusion and exclusion. Other groups fail by way of entanglements related to religion or politics or stagger under challenges to the group’s credibility. White talked about why AA was successful among the succession of...
Luring us in with your promises of a good time and that you’ll take away all our worries. Having us believe you can solve our problems, take our stress away and connect us to others in ways we think we can’t on our own. When I started to realize that something was very wrong, you...