ReviewAlcohol research : current reviews2020
Epidemiology of Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder.
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91 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 140 citations in OpenAlex.
- Examining alcohol use disorder recovery definitions and demographic reporting in studies of structural brain recovery: an updated systematic review and extension.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Pooled it
- Combined pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for alcohol use disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Long-term Efficacy and Safety of Sodium Oxybate in Treating Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current neuropharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Heavy Drinking Among a Non-Treatment Sample of People With Alcohol Use Disorder: A Feasibility Trial With CBT4CBT.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Trial
- Role of relative-reinforcement value of alcohol-free activities during recovery from alcohol use disorder in an adult clinical sample.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Trial
- Reductions in World Health Organization Risk Drinking Level Are Associated With Reductions in Alcohol Use Disorder Diagnosis and Criteria: Evidence From an Alcohol Pharmacotherapy Trial.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Individual and Community Social Determinants of Health and Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder Three Years following Treatment.Journal of psychoactive drugsTrial
- Natural recovery and gaming disorder: a case series.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Patterns, Predictors, and Correlates of Problematic Alcohol Use and Remission From Adolescence to Early Midlife.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Receptiveness to Formal and Informal Alcohol Intervention Approaches Among Emerging Adults Without Bachelor's Degrees.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Predicting relapse and rehospitalization in alcohol use disorder: A psychodiagnostic perspective.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Investigating Factors Associated With Spontaneous Remission in Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder-Results From a Multi-Site Longitudinal Cohort Study.Addiction biology · 2026Observational
- Alcoholics anonymous and recovery in Türkiye: A qualitative study in the context of Social Identity Theory.The British journal of social psychology · 2026Article
- Rethinking Recovery: Psychological Flexibility and Growth Across Diverse Recovery Approaches.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Relations between impulsivity and drinking in adults with alcohol use disorder during recovery: A longitudinal observational cohort study.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Observational
- G9a inhibition reduces stress-potentiated alcohol drinking in both male and female mice: Implications for safe and effective pharmacological therapeutics for alcohol use disorder.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Health behaviours and health-related quality of life among women and men with hazardous alcohol use: the Tromsø study (2015-2016).BMC public health · 2026Article
- Rates and Predictors of Follow-Up Care and Treatment Initiation Among Women Veterans After a Positive Alcohol Screen.Substance use & addiction journal · 2026Article
- Reductions in World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels as a Primary Efficacy End Point for Alcohol Clinical Trials: A Review.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Review
- Network characteristics of comorbid symptoms in alcohol use disorder.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Almost one-third of the U.S. population meets alcohol use disorder (AUD) criteria on a lifetime basis. This review provides an overview of recent research on the prevalence and patterns of alcohol-related improvement and selectively reviews nationally representative surveys and studies that followed risk groups longitudinally with a goal of informing patients with AUD and AUD researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers about patterns of improvement in the population. Based on the research, alcohol use increases during adolescence and early adulthood and then decreases beginning in the mid-20s across the adult life span. Approximately 70% of persons with AUD and alcohol problems improve without interventions (natural recovery), and fewer than 25% utilize alcohol-focused services. Low-risk drinking is a more common outcome in untreated samples, in part because seeking treatment is associated with higher problem severity. Sex differences are more apparent in help-seeking than recovery patterns, and women have lower help-seeking rates than men. Whites are proportionately more likely to utilize services than are Blacks and Hispanics. Improving recovery rates will likely require offering interventions outside of the health care sector to affected communities and utilizing social networks and public health tools to close the longstanding gap between need and utilization of AUD-focused services.
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