Alcoholics Anonymous, the Original Twelve-Step Program
Alcoholics Anonymous was started in June of 1935 when
stockbroker Bill Wilson met Dr. Bob Smith while on a business
trip to Akron, Ohio. Bill had gone into a hotel lobby at six
months sober, and chose to call a local hospital to ask to work
with another alcoholic instead of wandering into the hotel's bar.
The book entitled "Alcoholics Anonymous" was published in 1939.
The Alcoholics Anonymous book outlines each of the twelve steps
to recovery and is the foundation on which the organization was
built. The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program has helped millions
of people get and stay sober. Alcoholics Anonymous has worked
where countless treatment programs for alcoholics has failed
because of the fellowship of alcoholics reaching out to each
other to provide a supportive environment in which the
recovering alcoholic knows that they are not alone.
During Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and with the help of a
sponsor, recovering alcoholics are convinced that the need for a
moral inventory, confession of personality defects, restitution
for harm done to others, helping other alcoholics, and the
necessity of a belief in a power greater then themselves are the
keys to long term sobriety.
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