Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led mutual-aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined...
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global fellowship founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson (known as Bill W.) and Robert Smith (known as Dr. Bob), and has since grown...
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism (nicknamed The Big Book because of the thickness of the...
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Alcoholism (redirect from Alcoholics)
alcoholism. Among them is the abstinence based mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). A 2020 scientific review found that clinical interventions...
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Bill W. (redirect from Bill Wilson (Alcoholics Anonymous))
1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with Bob Smith. AA is an international mutual aid fellowship...
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is the second-largest 12-step organization, after 12-step pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous. As of May 2018[update] there were more than 70,000 NA meetings in...
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compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership...
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twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. SA is part of a group of twelve-step organization addressing sexual addiction: Sex Addicts Anonymous(SAA), Sex and...
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recovery from drug addiction. It is patterned very closely after Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), although the two groups are unaffiliated. While many CA members...
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specifically for those who eat compulsively but also uses the Alcoholics Anonymous books Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The First Step...
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some alcoholics may recover if they have a 'spiritual or religious experience' indirectly influenced the later founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Jung...
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Serenity Prayer (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
spreading through the YWCA and other groups in the 1930s, and in Alcoholics Anonymous and related organizational materials since at least 1941. Since at...
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Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA – Alcoholics Anonymous ACA – Adult Children of Alcoholics, for those who were raised in alcoholic and other dysfunctional...
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The Jim Irsay Collection (section Alcoholics Anonymous)
manuscript for the founding text of Alcoholics Anonymous, colloquially known as "The Big Book." Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder William "Bill W." Wilson...
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this group Hope of Adult Children of Alcoholics. After being asked to speak on his experiences in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Al-Anon to this group, Tony...
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Emmet Fox (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
in New York City. He is today considered a spiritual godparent of Alcoholics Anonymous. Fox was born in Ireland. His father, Joseph Francis Fox, who died...
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Twelve Traditions (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
by Bill Wilson after the founding of the first twelve-step group, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Several of the tenets of what was to become AA's Twelve Traditions...
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Bob Smith (doctor) (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson (more commonly known as Bill W.). Smith was born...
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happiness, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. Al-Anon was co-founded in 1951, 16 years after the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous on June 10, 1935...
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direct instruction for addiction designed as a direct counterpoint to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and twelve-step programs. Rational Recovery was founded in 1986...
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Twelve-step Suite (redirect from Alcoholics Anonymous suite)
The Twelve-step Suite (also known as the Twelve-step Saga or Alcoholics Anonymous Suite) is a set of five songs by American progressive metal band Dream...
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Sobriety coin (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
A sobriety coin is a token given to Alcoholics Anonymous or other twelve-step program members representing the amount of time the member has remained sober...
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Jimmy Kinnon (section Formation of Narcotics Anonymous)
of Alcoholics Anonymous began holding their own separate meetings, which they called Narcotics Anonymous. They were given permission from Alcoholics Anonymous...
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Ego reduction (category Alcoholics Anonymous)
Among other contexts, ego reduction has been seen as a goal in Alcoholics Anonymous; as a part of BDSM play, providing a means of entering "subspace";...
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Horrified that an innocent man might be convicted, Justin asks his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Larry for advice, as he is a defense attorney. He informs...
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SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976, by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he repeatedly...
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Teetotalism (redirect from Alcoholic abstinence)
alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. Alcoholics Anonymous Blue ribbon badge Catch-my-Pal Christianity and alcohol List of Temperance...
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Big Book | Alcoholics Anonymous – via Alcoholics Anonymous. "Appendix II: Spiritual Experience" (PDF). The Big Book | Alcoholics Anonymous. pp. 567–568...
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alcohol-specific references: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Emotions Anonymous (EA) Marijuana Anonymous Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Food Addicts...
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is believed to have been the first Roman Catholic priest to enter Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Pfau was born on November 10, 1904, the youngest of five brothers...
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