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Mind & BrainApril 4, 2015

Alcoholics Anonymous Ain’t Perfect, But At Least It’s Free

Alcoholics Anonymous, the 80-year-old self-help program, has always had critics, who fault it for being too religious and unscientific. Journalist Gabrielle Glaser revives both these charges in her April Atlantic article, “The False Gospel of Alcoholics Anonymous.” She claims that “researchers have debunked central tenets of A.A.

John Horgan