Stand Down is an app developed with extensive input from Veterans and VA psychologists to help Veterans manage an alcohol problem. Stand Down will first help you understand if drinking is a problem for you. It will then help you set a goal, give you continual feedback about your progress and encouragement to continue. It has numerous helpful tools for things like managing a craving to drink and help with understanding your personal “triggers” for drinking.

Stand Down has been shown to help Veterans have a much healthier relationship with alcohol. Studies funded by the VA at the Palo Alto and Seattle VA’s have indicated it has helped Veterans cut their drinking back, on average by more than half and that most Veterans who used the app thought it was “very helpful” in changing drinking.