Methods
Multiple databases were searched for appropriate publications,
including: PsycINFO; Pub Med; Health Sciences: JSTOR: Journals@
Ovid Full Text; and SAGE Journals Online and Psychology.
Additionally, a manual search of publications that had the words
“Alcohol” or “Addictions” in the titles was carried out. Keywords
searched for were outpatient, inpatient, substance use, day hospital,
inpatient care, 12-step, treatment, remission, abstinence, alcohol use
disorder, Alcoholics Anonymous, and recovery. The search was then
limited to articles published from 1992 to December 2013 focusing
on alcohol use disorders. Additionally, internet-based searches were
performed to identify potentially relevant publications that were not
published in the peer-reviewed manner.