Over 200 mutual aid organizations-often known as fellowships-with a worldwide membership of millions have adopted and adapted AA’s 12 Steps and 12 Traditions for recovery. Twelve-step methods have been adapted to address a wide range of alcoholism, substance abuse, and dependency problems.
helping others who suffer from the same alcoholism, addictions, or compulsions.
#I am powerless over my addiction code#
learning to live a new life with a new code of behavior.
examining past errors with the help of a sponsor (experienced member). coming to believe in a Higher Power that can give strength. admitting that one cannot control one's alcoholism, addiction, or compulsion. Īs summarized by the American Psychological Association (APA), the process involves the following: All twelve-step programs utilize a version of AA's suggested twelve steps first published in the 1939 book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Since that time dozens of other organizations have been derived from AA's approach to address problems as varied as drug addiction, compulsive gambling, sex, and overeating. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. For the song of the same name, see Cxloe.
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