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Exercise
In addition to these treatment mechanisms, research has been conducted that looks into how exercise can be implemented as a treatment method for alcohol abuse disorder. Exercise has been shown to help with intervention with gambling, marijuana and smoking addictions having made this correlation with these other addictions it motivated researchers to find out if it has the potential to help in alcohol abuse disorder as well. Alcohol abuse disorder is something that affects a very diverse population of people, therefore we need to find a resource for treatment that can be accessed by such a vastly diverse population of people affected by this disorder. Exercise is something that is extremely cost-friendly and accessible providing it the potential to be a very valuable tool. Finding solutions that have such high levels of generalizability is very valuable for our society.

When researchers began to find the commonality that those who suffered from alcohol abuse while also exercising regularly tended to be less anxious, depressed, and experience fewer cravings, than those who did not. These findings motivated further research in hopes to find a more solid correlation between these two factors. Researchers dove deeper into the details of the impacts and factors of the potential correlation shared between alcohol abuse disorder and exercise. There has been a large part of research along the lines of alcohol abuse and exercise that focus specifically on the reduction of cravings. Joseph t. Ciccolo et al. (2016) produced a study that looked at resistance exercise and how it could impact arousal and drinking urges for ages 21–40, with “risky drinking habits”. They found that resistance exercise was not as effective as other studies have shown cardio is for the reduction in urges. The resistance did, however, create an increase in arousal. This is not bad news for the treatment because this shows us the exercise is altering urges, and with repetition could alter outcomes, potential longitudinal studies should be pushed to find this answer. Furthermore researchers Ussher, Sampuran, Doshi, West, and Drummond (2004) looked at brief intense sessions of exercise and how that changed participant’s urges. This study concluded that alcohol urges reduced for the experimental group that would be participating in 10 minutes of moderate-intensity cycling prior to being surveyed about urges. It is important to challenge the research and to look at the potential variations of exercises that could make an impact to hopefully help us shrink the lens to a more solid definition. Furthermore, a study was developed in hopes of understanding how group workouts compared to individual ones  for treatment of alcohol abuse disorder. Group A would have a typical treatment containing typical therapy and counseling, group B would have normal treatment with a supervised group workout, and group C would have the normal treatment and a supervised individual workout. The study concluded that although there was not a strong scientifically significant benefit, it did display the correlations that those participants in the group or individual workout control groups did correlate to lower probability of drinking, and fewer cravings. To add further support to this, a study created by Brown et al., (2014) found that group exercise would correlate to a reduction in alcohol abuse disorder. Some conclusions can be drawn to the impact that having a group setting can have; making individuals feel more supported and understood, in combination with the physiological response from working out could be correlated to decrease the frequency of drinking. Much more research needs to be produced on this potential treatment regiment. There needs to be an analysis of the potential third variables; different types of exercise, the duration, intensity, and frequency. In addition, producing longitudinal studies could help create more validity and reliability for this research. These are all aspects we should hope to know soon but the research currently shows a correlation shared between alcohol abuse disorder treatment and implementation of exercise.