• “Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is perhaps the best-known and most successful alcoholism recovery program.”
• Dr. Robert Smith and Bill Watson created the group in 1935.
• 2004: 150 nations/territories, 100,000 groups, 2,000,000 followers.
• “AA defines alcoholism as a disease as well as a spiritual problem.”
• The AA uses twelve steps to stop alcoholism.
• AA theory is an alcoholic has no power over alcohol and needs a supreme power to stop alcoholism.
• AA theory states that an alcoholism isn’t fixed in a person. The alcoholic must never drink again in order to get over the disease.
• Membership to AA is free.
• AA also works to educate people to stop the stereotypes of alcoholics and alcoholism.
• There are divisions of Alcoholics Anonymous that are specifically for the family of an Alcoholic.
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