“How are we measuring it? A week of sobriety? A year? A lifetime?”īut a 2020 review of research on recovery options sheds some light on AA’s effectiveness. “Anything in the addiction space is hard to measure,” says Eric Patterson, LPC, a contributing writer to Choosing Therapy. The truth is, it can be hard to measure the effectiveness of a recovery program. In “ The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry,” Lance Dodes, MD, and Zachary Dodes claim the 22 percent is actually only 5 to 10 percent. Those figures from the survey are impressive, but not everyone buys them. Not everyone’s a fan, though, and AA is far from being the only option for finding peer support. He’s now a licensed alcohol and drug counselor and CEO of both the nonprofit Vegas Stronger and rehab CrossRoads of Southern Nevada.Įven 15 years into his recovery, Marlon still attends AA meetings about five times per week. Marlon stuck with AA and went on to work in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery. “It turns out, everyone had an idea of how close it was.” “When I got to the meeting, I was like, ‘You have no idea how close it was,’” he says. “I remember fighting my steering wheel and sweating while I came to a fork in the road.” “I was 100 percent sure I wasn’t drinking again after this 30-day experience, but on my ride back to Vegas, I started getting a craving,” Marlon says. so he could get to an AA meeting in Las Vegas at 8 a.m. The day he was discharged, he left the facility at 4 a.m. He bought into the program and the idea of a fellowship where people helped one another. Marlon checked into a 30-day treatment facility, where he learned more about Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). “Gradually, my drinking started squeezing all three of those out of my life,” Marlon says.
In his mind, though, they were getting in the way of his drinking. Soon, Marlon went on to college, where he drank more.Īfter graduation, he found himself with a job, wife, and child. Share on Pinterest Fat Camera / Getty ImagesĪs a teen, Dave Marlon had friends, but he wasn’t part of his school’s “cool crowd.”
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