Our first goal was to identify correlates of non-abstinent recovery by comparing the demographics (i.e., gender, age, race, ethnicity, education, employment) and recovery characteristics (i.e., length of recovery, help-seeking) of abstainers and non-abstainers within a large sample that includes individuals in long-term recovery (i.e., more than three years). Our second goal was to examine differences in quality of life between abstainers and non-abstainers controlling for length of time in recovery.
