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by placer 2294 days ago
It’s been established for a long time in the treatment field that AA (or pretty much anything else) works a lot better than no treatment.

Brandsma 1980 is the only study I can think of off of the top of my head comparing AA (and a few other therapies) to no treatment; AA (and everything else) did significantly better than getting no help.

What this new Cochrane study demonstrates is that AA is more effective at giving alcoholics long-term abstinence than traditional psychotherapy treatments.