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. 2019 Jul 29;58(5):1713–1750. doi: 10.1007/s10943-019-00876-w

Table 2.

Data used in proxy valuation of religious and spiritual substance abuse recovery programs held in congregations

Data Source
Length of sobriety Alcoholics Anonymous (2014)
Risk of relapse over time Dennis et al. (2007)
Age structure of A.A. members Alcoholics Anonymous (2014)
Mortality rates National Vital Statistics Reports (Xu et al. 2018)
Relative mortality risk of people with alcohol use disorder Laramée et al. (2015)
Total membership Alcoholics Anonymous (2018a)
Numbers of groups Alcoholics Anonymous (2018a)
VSL CEA (2017)
Non-fatality costs of addiction CEA (2017)
Number of religious and spiritual substance abuse recovery programs held in congregations Grim and Grim (2016)