Individuals who initiate substance use before high school are at higher risk of negative
outcomes. Eighty-six young adults between the ages of 18 and 28 participated in semi …

Abstract Purpose of Review Empirical evidence indicates that, in general, treatments which
systematically engage adults with freely available twelve-step mutual-help organizations …

Increased opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the United States has triggered
considerable professional, public, and political alarm and a wide array of community and …

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) rose in the mid-twentieth century amidst rising addiction to
opioids and other drug-related problems among adolescents and young adults in the United …

This article looks at the intersectionality between gender and age as it affects the recovery
process in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Women remain a minority in AA, just over one third …

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the longest-running mutual aid group for people with alcohol
use disorders, and AA turned 85 years old in 2020. Though there has been much criticism …

Dear Editor, The excellent paper by Spadola et al. raises the problem of an issue of relevant
interest, but not enough studied. A high proportion of patients undergoing bariatric surgery …

Understanding substitute addictions, whereby a terminated addictive behaviour is replaced
with another behaviour or addiction, has implications for assessment, treatment planning …

Background Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the largest non-governmental organization
(NGO) for alcoholics in the world. During the recent decades, Iran has suffered from alcohol …

Individuals in the stage of the life course between adolescence and established adulthood,
a period that has been coined emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2015; Arnett, Žukauskienė, & …