Format
Scientific article
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Archives of General Psychiatry: 1962, 6(1), p. 83-95
Keywords
alcohol
anxiety
depression
psychopathology
abstainers
identity
quality of life
treatment
moderation
abstinence
12-step
mutual aid
recovery capital
social network

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: The ‘Abstinent Alcoholic’

‘Backfilled’ as a seminal study for the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, the classic description of the patient who has sustained abstinence after treatment but is still unhappy, unfulfilled and/or nervously hanging on - in other words, not really ‘recovered’.