Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 1994;11(1-2) - issue devoted to Transcendental Meditation

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• Introduction Recovery from Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayur-Veda. David F. O'Connell PhD & Charles Alexander PhD, pp. 1-10
• Treating and Preventing Alcohol, Nicotine, and Drug Abuse Through Transcendental Meditation: A Review and Statistical Meta-Analysis. Charles N. Alexander PhD, Pat Robinson PhD, OTR & Maxwell Rainforth MS, MA, pp. 13-87
• A Neurondocrine Mechanism for the Reduction of Drug Use and Addictions by Transcendental Meditation. Kenneth G. Walton PhD & Debra Levitsky MS, pp. 89-117
• Transcendental Meditation as an Epidemiological Approach to Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Theory, Research, and Financial Impact Evaluation. David Orme-Johnson PhD, pp. 119-168
  Excerpt from the final paragraphs:
  A new theory that extended previous concepts of social influence was postulated, holding that stress is transmitted systematically through an underlying field of collective consciousness. It was proposed that Transcendental Meditation is a powerful means of stress reducation, and its ability to reduce stress has been convincingly demonstrated at the behavioral/psychological level (Alexander et al., 1991; Eppley et al., 1989), physiological level (e.g., Dillbeck & Orme-Johnson, 1987; Jevning et al., 1992), and molecular level (e.g., Walton & Levitsky, this volume). Retrospective, observational research then found that in urban areas in which 1% of the population practiced Transcendental Meditation, the multiple symptoms of stress in collective consciousness were significantly reduced (e.g., Dillbeck et al., 1981, 1988). Resorting to even more powerful technology, the TM-Sidhi program, field experiments were then conducted in which coherence creating groups were introduced into populations, and it was found that symptoms of social stress were consequently reduced (e.g., Dillbeck, 1990; Dillbeck et al., 1987, 1988; Orme-Johnson et al., 1988). Now, over 40 studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of this technology to reduce the societyal correlates of drug and alcohol abuse such as crime, traffic accidents, and unemployment, and in some studies, to directly reduce alcohol and tobacco use as part of quality of life indices (Orme-Johnson & Dillbeck, in press). The financial analysis indicates an enormous financial savings from implementation of the Stress-Immunization Program.
   
• Spirituality, Recovery, and Transcendental Meditation. Diarmuid O'Murchu MSC. pp. 169-184
• Effectiveness of Broad Spectrum Approaches to Relapse Prevention in Severe Alcoholism: A Long-Term, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Transcendental Meditation, EMG Biofeedback and Electronic Neurotherapy. Edward Tuab PhD , Solomon S. Steiner PhD , Eric Weingarten PhD & Kenneth G. Walton PhD. pp. 187-220
  Summary and Conclusions:
  Percent nondrinking days and abstinence rates, determined by monthly interviews and a "convergent validity" approach involving in-field breath tests and reports of collaterals and instiutions with whom the patients had contact, were compared in 118 low-resource, transient, severe, chronic alcoholics at 6, 12 and 18 months after they left a treatment facility. Two to three weeks after completion of detoxification, randomly assigned patients received routine treatment alone or along with one of three special treatments: Transcendental Meditation, EMG biofeedback, or electronic neurotherapy. The main outcome was that addition of Transcendental Meditation or biofeedback to the routine AA and counseling treatment produced large improvements in relapse prevention beyond AA and counseling alone or AA and counseling plus neurotherapy. The effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation and biofeedback was roughly equal, but neurotherapy had not significant effect on relapse at any time point. These results indicate that Transcendental Meditation and EMG biofeedback are capable of increasing the effectiveness of routine therapies such as AA and counseling at preventing relapse to alcoholism.
   
• The Role of the Transcendental Meditation Technique in Promoting Smoking Cessation: A Longitudinal Study. Ann Royer PhD. pp. 221-238