The features provided in Step Away stem from decades of research on effective interventions for reducing or stopping drinking. Step Away has been the focus of numerous research grants from the U.S. National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the VA Health Science Research and Development Service and the New Zealand Health Research Council. These projects have indicated that Step Away users drinking dropped from between 50 and 60% and that they found it, on average, to be “very to extremely helpful” in changing drinking. Step Away has been in a continual process of improvement with input from users and psychologists from around the world and now you can benefit from this background work as it is now available for public use.