# 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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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-have-that-does-aa-work-thread-alcoholics-anonymous/557706/29 "2010-10-20T13:43:17Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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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.
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> 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.”

And second-hand anecdotal evidence is always better than scientific studies. That’s why we can be sure that Laetrile works.

:rolleyes:

Regards,  
Shodan

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