A set of symptoms that can happen when someone who has been drinking heavily for a long time suddenly stops or sharply cuts back.

Contingency management is a behavioral treatment approach used for Alcohol Use Disorder and other substance use disorders.

AA was founded in 1935 in Akron by Bill Wilson (a New York stockbroker) and Bob Smith (a surgeon known as “Dr. Bob”).

Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is one type of addiction, but it sits within a much broader group of substance and behavioral addictions.

Cannabis use is complex, and researchers are still figuring out exactly how it influences AUD.

AA has many positive slogans to keep it simple.

AUD  affects all sorts of talented people, many of whom are recovering from their addiction.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, “surrender” does not mean humiliation, defeat, weakness, or giving up on life. It means acceptance.