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...

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led mutual aid fellowship begun in the United States dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism...

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...

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...

program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. Since that time dozens of other organizations...

for mental health List of twelve-step groups Twelve-step program Alcoholics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous (February 10, 2002). Twelve...

figured in the events leading to the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Rowland Hazard III was born into one of the most prominent families in the Rhode Island...

known as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson (more commonly known as Bill W.). Smith was born...

of William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith (the men respectively called "Bill W." and "Dr. Bob"), the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous....

as Jim B. or Jimmy B., was one of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) founding members. He was among the first ten members of AA on the East Coast, and was responsible...

Cemetery in West Long Branch, New Jersey. History of Alcoholics Anonymous "Dr. William Silkworth, Alcoholics Anonymous Leader". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March...

official ("conference approved") Alcoholics Anonymous literature. In 1952, while looking for educational materials for alcoholics, Hazelden President Pat Butler...

12-step pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous. As of May 2018[update] there were more than 70,000 NA meetings in 144 countries. The third tradition of NA states that...

was The Twelve Steps: An Interpretation of the Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous Program. It was endorsed by AA co-founder Dr. Bob as a companion...

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...

used in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other twelve-step programs. The same groups use the phrases "a power greater than ourselves" and "God of our understanding"...

called 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...

collaborator in developing the main chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous' The Big Book; see History of Alcoholics Anonymous § Works Publishing John Parkhurst (c....

uses the Alcoholics Anonymous books Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The First Step of OA begins with the admission of powerlessness...

spreading through the YWCA and other groups in the 1930s, and in Alcoholics Anonymous and related organizational materials since at least 1941. Since at...

of Alcoholics Anonymous and their application. The book dedicates a chapter to each step and each tradition, providing a detailed interpretation of these...

that some alcoholics may recover if they have a "spiritual or religious experience" led, in part, to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Jung was an...

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...

solution" of the Group to suffering alcoholics led to Dr. Bob’s sobriety in 1935. Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob shortly after founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)....

87. Alcoholics Anonymous "The Big Book" 4th edition, p. 13. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age (1957), William G. Wilson, p. 63. An Alcoholic’s Savior:...

not the original inventor. Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, said that his first drink of alcohol that he could remember was the "Bronx cocktail"...

Adult Children of Alcoholics Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism in family systems Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) List of twelve-step groups...

Anonymous (SA) founded in 1979 is one of several twelve-step programs for compulsive sexual behavior based on the original twelve steps of Alcoholics...

Alcoholics Anonymous. There were several remarkable women in the early days of AA including but not limited to: Florence R. of New York, Sylvia K. of...

summer of 1953 Jimmy Kinnon and other members of Alcoholics Anonymous began holding their own separate meetings, which they called Narcotics Anonymous. They...