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Gender aspects of affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous after treatment
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Studies incorporating gender aspects of post-treatment affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) have often focused on meeting attendance, disregarding behavioral indicators of affiliation. This article describes meeting attendance and affiliative behaviors in a Swedish treatment sample of 112 men and 40 women, and also identifies predictors of high affiliation. While no gender differences were found for meeting attendance, more women than men reported that they had called an AA member for h...
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Women's Hearth: helping area women for 15 years.
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Gender differences seen in AA participants' beliefs.(Mental Health)(Alcoholics Anonymous)
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pounds 52k-A-WEEK MAN UNITED SKIPPER GOES TO ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; Football hardman attends secret meetings in bid to keep his drinking under control.(News)
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; ... nursery children - and listens to his fellow alcoholics talk about how their battles with the bottle have ruined their lives. The news will shock the soccer star's United teammates, who are with him on a pre-season tour of Munich and Malta ahead of next week's ...
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Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies
Contemporary Drug Problems
; Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies, by Klaus Makela et al. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 297 pp. plus personal name and subject indices, cloth $46.00, paper $14.95. Many, loud and long are the complaints of those who peruse the scholarly
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Women Who Love Too Much.
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Letters from Women Who Love Too Much.
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; From the well-known Alcoholics Anonymous to the newer groups like Debtors Anonymous, impotence Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Depressives Anonymous and Love Addicts Anonymous (sometimes called WWLTM, after Robin Norwood's enormously successful and
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Golden Age: AA celebrates 60 sober years.(Alcoholics Anonymous)
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These people are all members of a religious cult At least that's the suggestion of the American judge who ruled that Alcoholics Anonymous is `a religion'. So are addicts merely swapping one dependency for another?
The Independent - London
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