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==Effectiveness==

A 2009 study saw that subjects using just Moderation Management to reduce their drinking went from having only about one day a week abstinent from alcohol to having 1.5 days a week abstinent (e.g., they would drink six days one week and five days another week).<ref>{{cite journal|pmc=2739257|year=2009|last1=Hester|first1=R. K.|title=A web application for moderation training: Initial results of a randomized clinical trial|journal=Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment|volume=37|issue=3|pages=266–276|last2=Delaney|first2=H. D.|last3=Campbell|first3=W.|last4=Handmaker|first4=N.|pmid=19339137|doi=10.1016/j.jsat.2009.03.001}} The study reported that using MM along with an online drink tracker increased the number of days abstinent from alcohol to three or four days a week</ref>

A 2012 paper argues that, while there is little scientific analysis of MM's efficacy, mutual support groups such as ''Moderation Management'' could be effective.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lembke|first1=Anna|author-link=Anna Lembke|last2=Humphreys|first2=Keith|year=2012|title=Moderation Management: A Mutual-Help Organization for Problem Drinkers Who Are Not Alcohol-Dependent|journal=Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery|volume=7|issue=2–4|pages=130–141|doi=10.1080/1556035X.2012.705657|s2cid=145299928}}</ref>

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{{See also|Bystander effect#Larry Froistad|Murder of Amanda Froistad|l1=Bystander effect: Larry Froistad|l2=Murder of Amanda Froistad}}

Moderation Management was founded by Audrey Kishline, a problem drinker, who did not identify with the [[disease theory of alcoholism]], finding that it eroded her [[self-confidence]]. Kishline found that she could moderate her drinking with the help of [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] principles and in 1994 created Moderation Management as an organization for non-dependent problem drinkers to help maintain moderate alcohol use. MM maintains, however, that it is not for all problem drinkers; that there are some drinkers for whom abstinence will be the only solution.<ref name="HUMPHREYS2004">{{Cite book|last=Humphreys |first=Keith |title=Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions |year=2004 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-79277-6 |chapter=Chapter 2: An international tour of addiction-related mutual-help organizations: Moderation Management |pages=70–73}}</ref>

Kishline had asked many [[Mental health professional|professionals]] for advice while she was establishing the fellowship, including psychologist [[Jeffrey Schaler]], who wrote the foreword for the first edition of the book, ''Moderate Drinking,'' used in the organization and served on the original board of [[trustee]]s for MM.<ref name="SCHALER1994">{{Cite book|last=Schaler |first=Jeffrey A. |title=Moderate Drinking: The New Option for Problem Drinkers |chapter=Foreword |publisher=See Sharp Press |editor=Kishline, Audrey |year=1994 |edition=First |chapter-url=http://www.schaler.net/Kishlineforeword.htm}}</ref> Schaler split ways with MM over two issues. The first being failure of MM's leadership to condemn member Larry Froistad after he [[Murder of Amanda Froistad|confessed to murdering his daughter]] on an MM support group [[Electronic mailing list|email list]]. The second being a disagreement with MM as to whether there was a medical distinction between problem drinkers and [[alcoholism|alcoholics]]. Schaler's foreword was replaced with one by historian Ernest Kurtz in subsequent editions.<ref name="SCHALER2000">{{Cite book|last=Schaler |first=Jeffrey A. |title=Addiction Is a Choice |publisher=[[Open Court Publishing]] |___location=[[Chicago, Illinois]] |date=January 2000 |chapter=Chapter 10: Moderation Management and Murder |pages=107–114 |chapter-url=http://www.schaler.net/mmurder.htm |isbn=978-0-8126-9403-1}}</ref>