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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|url=|journal=Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery|volume=7|issue=2–4|pages=130–141|doi=10.1080/1556035X.2012.705657|s2cid=145299928}}</ref>

==History==

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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>

In January 2000 Kishline posted a message to an official MM [[email list]] stating that she had concluded her best drinking goal was abstinence and that she would begin attending [[Alcoholics Anonymous]], [[SMART Recovery]] and [[Women for Sobriety]] meetings while continuing to support MM for others.<ref name="KISHLINE2000">{{cite mailing list | url = http://www.doctordeluca.com/Documents/KishlineToldMM.htm | title = Announcement from Audrey | mailinglistmailing-list = Moderation Management | date = 2000-01-20 | last = Kishline |first = Audrey |archive-date=2001-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010306062247/http://www.doctordeluca.com/Documents/KishlineToldMM.htm}}</ref> In March 2000, while drunk,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Girvan|first=Amy|date=March 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=The next AA? Welcome to Moderation Management, where abstinence from alcohol isn't the answer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/16/the-next-aa-moderation-management-abstinence-alcohol-isnt-the-answer|accessdate=2017-12-29|quote=After starting MM, Kishline left the group, realizing that she could not moderate her drinking after all. She returned to AA, then fell off the wagon, drunk-driving in March 2000 and killing a man and his 12-year-old daughter.}}</ref> she drove her truck the wrong way down a highway, and hit another vehicle head-on killing its two passengers (a father and his twelve-year-old daughter). MM continued to grow during Kishline's time in prison.<ref name="HUMPHREYS2004"/> She was released in August 2003 after serving 3½ years of her 4½ year sentence.<ref name="Walker2015">{{cite journal|title=Remembering Audrey Kishline, the Founder of Moderation Management |last1=Walker |first1=Regina |journal=The Fix |date=2015-01-07 |url=https://www.thefix.com/content/remembering-audrey-kishline |access-date=2019-02-28 |archive-date=2015-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929065244/http://www.thefix.com/content/remembering-audrey-kishline}}</ref><ref name="KishlineMaloy2007">{{cite book|author1=Audrey Kishline|author2=Sheryl Maloy|title=Face to Face: A Deadly Drunk Driver, a Grieving Young Mother, and Their Astonishing True Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7ezTUTnoWYC|year=2007|publisher=Meredith Books|isbn=978-0-696-23514-6|oclc=144226098}}</ref>

Kishline continued to drink once released from prison.<ref name="Walker2015"/> Soon after she divorced from her husband and struggled to find work in part due to her felony conviction.<ref name="Walker2015"/> She developed a friendship with the wife and mother of the victims of her drunk driving accident, and together they authored a book together on their relationship.<ref name="Walker2015"/><ref name="KishlineMaloy2007"/> She died at the age of 59 on December 19th, 2014. Her death was said to have been a suicide by two mental health professionals, but this was not confirmed by her family.<ref name="Walker2015"/>