Addiction Treatment Alcohol Addiction
help in mutual-support groups, use of medications, and behavioral treatments. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism points out that “behavioral treatments are aimed at changing drinking behavior through counseling” (NIH, 2019). Towards this end, in addition to being directed by a health professional, behavioral treatments are also rooted in studies underlining their utility (NIH, 2019). Therefore, while behavioral anonymous groups operate on a professional platform, alcoholic anonymous is nonprofessional and its deliberations are run in a self-help peer support format. It is important to note that as Buddy (2017) points out, numerous randomized control trials undertaken amongst abusers of a wide range… Continue Reading...