RE the success of AA Solomon does not know how to read a basic graph. I strongly suggest you look at the original survey she cites before printing trash like this. This misrepresentation is a blatant lie. Let me give you the basics. The graph this comes from plots the distribution of people in attendance at AA meetings with less than one year of sobriety. The total of all months = 100%. The number of people in their 1st month of sobriety = 19% The number of people in their 12th month month = 5% You tell me how any competent researcher can misconstrue that as the equivalent of a 5% retention rate at 12 months? Even more to the point, the data comes from a survey - and that survery does not even attempt to record sobriety, it counts asses in chairs. Given that those first attending AA are storngly encouraged to attend as many meetings as possible, of course attendance is top loaded in the first few months. This is elementary school level math problems, and this supposed researcher can not even read a simple graph. FAIL!
