Moderation Management (MM) is a secular non-profit organization providing peer-run support groups for anyone who would like to reduce their alcohol consumption.
[1] MM encourages members to follow particular drinking guidelines, limits, goal setting techniques, and a nine-step cognitive-behavioral change program.
[5] MM groups are intended to give members a chance to identify with other problem drinkers and learn from the successes and failures of each other.
MM attracts an equal number of men and women (49% are female); depending on the kinds of meetings attended, between 11.9% and 33.8% of members were under 35 years of age.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[1] Kishline had asked many 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 trustees for MM.
[13] In March 2000, while drunk,[14] she drove her truck the wrong way down a highway, and hit another vehicle head-on killing its two passengers (a father and his 12-year-old daughter).