Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous
drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and …

Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) confers a prodigious burden of disease, disability,
premature mortality, and high economic costs from lost productivity, accidents, violence …

Abstract Background Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a world‐wide recovery mutual‐help
organization that continues to arouse controversy. In large part, concerns persist because of …

More Americans than ever before are identifying as “spiritual but not religious.” Both
spirituality and religiosity (S/R) are of interest in the addiction field as they are related to …

Background Social factors play a key role in addiction recovery. Research with adults
indicates individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) benefit from mutual-help …

Background The “therapeutic alliance” between clinicians and patients has been associated
with treatment response and outcomes in professionally-delivered psychotherapies …

Research shows that digital social network sites (SNSs) may be valuable platforms to effect
health behavior change. Little is known specifically about their ability to help address …

Clinicians working with individuals with alcohol use problems, as well as clinicians in
training, have found this chapter to be an extraordinarily useful resource in guiding their …

A flurry of federally funded rigorous randomized clinical trials, cost-effectiveness, and
mechanisms of behavior change studies during the past 30 years have now clarified the …

Adolescent substance use disorder treatment programs are often based on the 12-step
philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous and/or link adolescents to these free resources …