BPD

[Kelley]

At 10:44 AM 3/12/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Kelley wrote:
>
>>similarly, AA's insistence on abstinence based on this claim about 
>>uncontrollable drinking
>
>Like I asked the other day, is there any evidence that AA is more 
>effective than other approaches, or simply the passage of time?
>
>Doug

I answered this early on, backing up Carrol's claim. Stuart also answered 
this. Rudy has all the research in his book (my book is in storage, at the 
moment) and that research was done in the 70s and 80s. Back then, Syracuse 
used to get boatloads of NIH monies to study alcohol, alcoholism, drinking. 
Rudy worked under someone who headed up that research program, Hal 
Mizruchi, IIRC. He used a 'symbolic interactionist' approach.

kelley

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