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Rehab News:Abstinence 'best' for recovering alcoholics

Recovering alcoholics who choose to abstain from drinking are less likely to relapse than those following an alternative strategy, researchers have said.

A new study looked at more than 1,700 adults who were in recovery from alcoholism.

Participants were either abstainers; low-risk drinkers who were not deemed to be at risk of relapse; or asymptomatic risk drinkers who consumed more than the recommended guidelines but were not deemed to be alcohol dependent.

Publishing their findings in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, the scientists reveal that alcoholics who were abstainers at the start of the study (2001/02) were most likely to still be in recovery in 2004/05.

Just 7.3 per cent of abstainers had experienced a recurrence of symptoms associated with alcohol dependence, compared with 27.2 per cent of low-risk drinkers and 51 per cent of asymptomatic risk drinkers.

However, the researchers noted that younger alcoholics were less likely to benefit from abstinence.

Lead author Dr Deborah Dawson, a substance abuse researcher with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said: "The biggest surprise was how little abstinence did to improve the prospects for younger alcoholics remaining in remission.

"Youthful abstainers are still at high risk."