Meditation and the prevention of alcohol abuse.
The American journal of psychiatry September 1975 M Shafil, R Lavely, R Jaffe
The authors surveyed the frequency of alcohol use in individuals identified as practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (N equals 126) and a matched control group (N equals 90). No control subjects reported discontinuation of beer and wine use; 40 percent of subjects who had meditated for more than 2 years reported discontinuation within the first 6 months. After 25-39 months of meditation,...