God As We Understood Him
Historical Roots of the Concept ‘Higher Power’. The basic principles of Alcoholics Anonymous were worked out in the late 1930s and early 1940s, during what co-founder Bill W. often referred to as the Fellowship’s period of “trial and error.” The founding members had been using six steps borrowed from the Oxford Groups, where many of …∞
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Alcoholics Anonymous Lowers Murder Rate
Study Relates AA Membership to Lower Murder Rate Noting the relationship between drinking and violent crime, a new study suggests that increased membership in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) could actually lower the murder rate in a community, Reuters reported. Researchers from the University of Toronto and Dalhousie University studied AA membership in Ontario between 1968 and …∞
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Coffee May Help Alcoholics Quit Drinking
Vanderbilt study suggests coffee may help alcoholics quit drinking Not all recovering alcoholics smoke cigarettes, but almost all of them drink coffee, according to a new Vanderbilt study suggesting that healthy intake behaviors could help addicts kick their habit. The study, “Coffee and Cigarette Consumption and Perceived Effects in Recovering Alcoholics Participating in Alcoholics Anonymous …∞
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Action and Patience
The writings on recovery from alcoholism, addiction and co-dependency are extensive and the book ‘Came to Believe’ is one which I could not do without. “In shame and despair, I went to my first A.A. meeting. By some minor miracle, I was able to suspend opinion, analysis, judgment, and criticism, and instead to listen and …∞
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Agnostic and Alcoholic in AA
My name is Jan and I’m an agnostic alcoholic in AA My parents gave me a faith that in later years I lost. No, it was not a religious faith, though I was exposed to the teachings of two sects. Neither was forced upon me; I simply drifted away through boredom, and my fragile, superficial …∞
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Act As If Belief
“My sponsor was a living damper on my intolerance. But even more, he told me that it would be all right for me to doubt God, that A.A. was not a religious program and, to belong, I did not have to adhere to any set of beliefs. “He suggested that for me a good starting …∞
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Effectiveness of AA & NA
High effectiveness of self-help programs after drug addiction therapy in Norway BACKGROUND: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA use a 12-step program and are found in all communities around the world. Although many have argued that these organizations are valuable, substantial scepticism remains as …∞
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Official AA Websites
These are some of the Alcoholics Anonymous websites around the world. Argentina www.sinectis.com.ar/u/aa_osg Australia www.aa.org.au Austria www.anonyme-alkoholiker.at Belguim www.aavlaanderen.org Britain; www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk Canada; www.aacanada.com Chile www.alcoholicosanonimoschile.cl Denmark www.anonyme-alkoholikere.dk Ecuador www.aae.org.ec Europe; www.aa-europe.net/ Finland www.aa.fi France www.alcooliques-anonymes.fr Grapevine; www.aagrapevine.org/ Guatemala www.aa.com.gt Hungary www.anonimalkoholistak.hu Iceland www.aa.is India www.aagsoindia.org Ireland; www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie Italy www.alcolisti-anonimi.it Japan www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/aa-jso/ Korea www.aakorea.co.kr Latvia www.aa.org.lv …∞
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