Charlie Sheen declares that AA has a 5% success rate

• April 20, 2024

The controversial actor Charlie Sheen has declared, within a series of comments against its own production house, that the program used by the support group of Alcoholics Anonymous It is not very functional and it only has one 5% success rate.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a worldwide group of recovering alcoholics who help each other maintain their sobriety and freely share the experiences of their Recovery with other men and women who also have problems with drinking.

It is difficult to find a statistical number that confirms the comment of Sheen within the group, due to its nature of anonymity, and because the group does not carry out internal studies. The newspaper LA Times published in a special report, that members of the group declared that 33% of the volunteers who attend they have managed to stay sober for more than 10 years, 12% achieved sobriety for 5 to 10 years, 24% were sober for 1 to 5 years and 31% were sober for less than a year.

However, the numbers can not be considered as conclusive because AA it does not allow knowing the total number of members in the program.

According to a member (anonymous who has been in treatment with AA) interviewed by GetQoralHealth , there are more than 2 million sober people in the program. The community is oriented exclusively towards personal recovery and the continuous sobriety of each alcoholic who came to the group in search of help and is willing to comply with the 12 steps created to track their recovery.

"Is a action program , if you take the actions it works. You may have a low percentage of success if you wish to see some of them, but you have 100% success in those who follow it consistently . It's like with diets, few people work because there are few who follow them devoutly and have the discipline to meet the program step by step. "

If you want to communicate with the group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Mexico, call the phone 5264 2406 or to 5584 3069. From the interior of the republic WITHOUT COST to 01 800 2169 231.