# Okay, let's have that "Does AA work?" thread. (Alcoholics Anonymous)

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**Created:** [October 19, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-have-that-does-aa-work-thread-alcoholics-anonymous/557706 "2010-10-19T21:27:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-have-that-does-aa-work-thread-alcoholics-anonymous/557706/28 "2010-10-20T13:00:54Z")

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I have only the “anecdote” that among alcoholics I’ve known, success at sobriety was very strongly correlated with AA attendance.

I’ve already mentioned one woman, sober for the last 30 years of her life, who became a very successful life-saving counsellor and, despite having strong will-power, _still_ insisted on attending meetings because she “needed to.”

> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> [In 2008] Alcoholics Anonymous General Service Board took in $10.2 million in contributions and grants. … not small potatoes.

AA claims to have 2 million members. $5 per member _is_ certainly “small potatoes.”

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