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Alcohol and Addiction Recovery Groups

You may be unsure weather you or someone you know has a problem with drink, drugs, gambling or any other form of addiction. You may also feel that you are the only one and feel quite isolated by your problem or illness. Going to a support group will mean that you will meet many people who have the same problem or issue as yourself. These people will be able to indentify with you and talk freely as all have the same problem there should be no shame or biased opinion that you may have met else where. There is still alot of ignorance, prejudice, pre conceived judgement and the imprinting of dated visions of what people may think of an addict or an alcoholic. In truth, noone is immune from becoming an alcoholic or addict or suffering from some sort of addiction, high standing members of the community, nurses, doctors, lawyers, judges, social workers, mothers, fathers, teenagers, pensioners etc. etc. can all be addicts. In these support groups you will meet such people of all walks of life, of all creeds, colours and religions, joined by the same problem and the same desire to overcome this problem, together. There will be new comers like yourself and also people who have great lengths of time from being free of their addiction. Here you can learn many different tools and concepts that could help in your journey of freedom and recovery. There will also be the opportunity to make new friends and people that you can talk honestly and openly too, where this may have been impossible in the past. Ofcourse, this may not be for you, but it is worth a try, and worth getting a few phone numbers of the people you meet that you like that you can contact in the future. You may not like tha idea of talking openly to many people especially at first, but almost everybody felt this way at first.

Probably the most well known of these recovery groups is that of Alcoholics Anonymous. There are AA meetings now basically world wide. There are many, daily if not twice or thrice daily in most cities, there may be even a few a week in the small village that you live in that you would have never of known about. AA is anonymous and assuch you only say your first name and during the meetings the moto "all you see here, all you hear here, when you leave here, please let it stay here." In a nut shell, gossip is totally discouraged and it is expected that you and everybody else does not repeat what they heard or who attended the meetings. Narcotics Anonymous , N.A., is for those individuals who have drug addictions and is run on similar lines, with similar principles to A.A., and thus it follows, Overeaters Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, etc. The programmes of recovery are similar and in many cases, the word drink in any literature can often be replace with your particular problem. The family members of those with alcohol and addiction problems and the children also use the same programme of recovery even though they may not even drink or take drugs. ALANON is for friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts, ALATEEN for teenagers of those, and there is also ACOA for adult children of alcoholics/ addicts. It is a Recovery Programme.

About A.A.

Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

The 12 Suggested 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.

 

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The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees; A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organisation or institution.
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