MODERATION MANAGEMENT Moderation Management In 2002, the National Association of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA, 2002) reported that physicians diagnosed 2,372,000 people with alcohol related problems (NIAAA, 2002). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) found that only one out of every four-problem drinkers fulfilled the requirements for a medical finding of alcoholism. The IOM (Hoeltzel, Kern, &Rotgers, 2002) also found that 93% of treatment programs base recovery on the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which necessitates total abstinence for success. …showed first 75 words of 1358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1358 total…is not for everyone. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recommends that a physician assess patients through brief intervention procedures, then recommend either abstinence (for the severely dependent), or moderation (2000). As stated by Linda and Mark Sobell (1995) the two most fundamental concepts they have found are that 1) severely dependent people are primarily successful using abstinence based programs and 2) those with less severe cases of abuse have a higher chance of successful moderation management.