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 dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined...

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...

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...

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...

prominently in the events leading to the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Rowland Hazard III was born into one of Rhode Island's oldest and most prominent families...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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"...

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

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...

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)....

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

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...

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:...

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

some alcoholics may recover if they have a 'spiritual or religious experience' indirectly influenced the later founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Jung...

twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. SA is part of a group of twelve-step organization addressing sexual addiction: Sex Addicts Anonymous(SAA), Sex and...

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

co-founder of Al-Anon Family Groups, a 12-Step fellowship for the friends and family of alcoholics. She was the wife of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) co-founder...

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"...

of Frederick Loeser & Co.'s New Store". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 22, 1887. p. 1. Ernest Kurtz (1979). Not-God; A History of Alcoholics Anonymous....