Editing Rational Recovery (section)

== Meetings canceled ==
Rational Recovery claims that "AVRT has made recovery groups obsolete."{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} In 1998, Rational Recovery announced, "The Recovery Group Movement is Over!...Beginning January 1, 1999, all addiction recovery group meetings for Rational Recovery in the United States, Canada, and abroad are hereby canceled and will not be rescheduled ever again, it's just a waste of time and is completely unproductive."{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}  Despite those remarks, there are still some groups in existence today, although the numbers are dwindling.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

In a 1993 research study led by [[Marc Galanter (psychiatrist)|Marc Galanter]], former president of both the [[American Society of Addiction Medicine]] and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, attempted to measure the impact of Rational Recovery on members. The research found that "Rational Recovery succeeded in engaging substance abusers and promoting abstinence among many of them while presenting a cognitive orientation that is different from the spiritual one of AA. Its utility in substance abuse treatment warrants further assessment.  The results of the impact on this type of recovery are too few to make an educational assumption."<ref name="GALANTER1993">{{cite journal |last=Galanter |first=Mark |author2=Egelko, S |author3=Edwards, H |title=Rational Recovery: Alternative to AA for addiction? |journal=American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse |year=1993 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=499–510 |url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5000241925&er=deny |doi=10.3109/00952999309001638 |pmid=8273770 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420055859/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o |archive-date=2010-04-20 }}</ref> This research was conducted before Rational Recovery disbanded their meetings in favor of self-recovery treatment. [[SMART Recovery]] split from Rational Recovery just after this research and continues to offer these same groups.