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There are a variety of alcoholism and alcohol abuse treatment and support programs in the US, but perhaps the most famous support program is sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

Alcoholic Anonymous has chapters throughout the US and world. It is a self-supporting organization free of alliances with any sect or denomination, organization or institution, with the sole purpose of helping alcoholics get sober and stay sober. The only membership requirement is a desire to stop drinking.

Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as AA, is well known for its 12 step recovery program. The 12 step program recommends the practice of MEDITATION, and the exact tenets of the system are as follows:

The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.

  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Further information can be found on the web or at local chapter meetings throughout the nation.