Alcoholics
Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their
experience, strength and hope with each other that
they may solve their common problem and help others to recover
from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire
to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership;
we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is
not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization
or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy,
neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose
is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
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The
Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
1 - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives
had become unmanageable.
2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity.
3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood Him.
4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
7 - Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing
to make amends to them all.
9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others.
10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it.
11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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Twelve
Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
1 - Our common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2 - For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority—a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3 - The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop
drinking.
4 - Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5 - Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its
message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6 - An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A.
name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems
of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7 - Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8 - Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional,
but our service centers may employ special workers.
9 - A.A., as such, ought never be organized, but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.
10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence
the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11 - Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather
than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at
the level of press, radio, and films.
12 - Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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