Last Call: Alcoholism and Recovery

Last Call is the first book, outside of Alcoholics Anonymous' own publications, to offer an insider's perspective on how and why AA is the most effective alcoholism treatment program in the world. Using powerful first-person narratives -- composites of many individual experiences with the disease and recovery -- Hedblom demystifies the meetings, the twelve steps, the Promises, and the sponsors.

Jack H. Hedblom, M.S.W., Ph.D., a psychotherapist with a private practice in Towson, Maryland, received his Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York and an M.S.W. from the University of Maryland. He has held faculty positions at major universities in the United States and has worked in the fields of criminology, social deviance, and social psychology. He has published in these areas and on methods of social research, coauthoring Methods for the Social Sciences: A Handbook for Students and Non-Specialists and contributing chapters to colleagues' publications in social policy and penology. Dr. Hedblom's interest in social psychology and alcoholism grew from his work with veterans at the Baltimore VA Hospital.