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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Jan 13;0:109–117. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.12.036

Table 2.1.

Abstinencea: element endorsement by class membership.

12-step
Traditionalist
12-step
Enthusiast
Secular Self-
Reliant
Atypical

Elements Rating b % % % % %
No alcohol use Definitely 87 80 61 67 51
Somewhat 4 7 14 14 10
May 4 7 20 14 27
Does not 5 6 6 5 13
No abuse of prescribed drugs Definitely 84 77 72 66 55
Somewhat 4 7 10 14 9
May 5 8 10 14 22
Does not 7 8 8 7 15
No use of non-prescribed
drugs
Definitely 72 65 52 57 41
Somewhat 8 11 14 16 14
May 9 12 21 18 23
Does not 11 12 13 9 22
a

This CFA component label was established in a prior analysis.

b

Definitely belongs in your definition of recovery, somewhat belongs in your definition of recovery, does not belong in your definition of recovery, but may belong in other people’s definition of recovery, or does not really belong in a definition of recovery.