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Jun 12, 2024 · After 8 years of tracking, 46% of those with professional help refrained from alcohol and drugs, while 49% of AA members remained sober. People with alcohol problems who did both treatment and AA were more likely to not drink for 1 to 3 years.
Mar 11, 2020 · AA began in 1935 when two men in Akron, Ohio, were searching for a way to stay sober; they found it by forming a support group. They later developed the 12 steps, the first being accepting one’s inability to control drinking; the last, helping others sustain sobriety by becoming a sponsor of a new member.
Estimates of A.A. Groups and Members broken down by U.S., Canada, Correctional Facilities, Loners, Internationalists, Homers and Internationally.
The success rate of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is difficult to measure since it's subjective, but some studies have found that up to 70% of participants maintain sobriety for some period of time after completing the program.
May 10, 2024 · A study conducted by AA in 2014 showed that 27% of the more than 6,000 members who participated in the study were sober for less than a year. In addition, 24% of the participants were sober 1-5 years while 13% were sober 5-10 years.
Use the AA Grapevine sobriety calculator to see how many years, months, days and hours you have of sobriety. It's amazing what can happen one day at a time.
Average member sobriety is slightly under 10 years with 36% sober more than ten years, 13% sober from five to ten years, 24% sober from one to five years, and 27% sober less than one year. Before coming to AA, 63% of members received some type of treatment or counseling, such as medical, psychological, or spiritual.
