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In accordance with the Twelve Traditions, this website will never lend its name to financial enterprise, declines financial contributions, is non-professional, is never organized, has no opinion on outside issues, never promotes, and always maintains anonymity. This website has one purpose, in accordance with the Twelve Traditions: to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. Informally known as "The Big Book" (with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a power higher than themselves seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding take a moral inventory with care to include resentments list and become ready to remove character defects list and make amends to those harmed, and thusly, try to help other alcoholics recover. To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name. AA lacks formal organization, shuns publicity, is altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limits AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level. AA membership spreads across diverse cultures holding different beliefs and values. In 1946, AA's Twelve Traditions were created in order to help the movement stabilize and grow.ĪA is regarded as a proponent of the disease theory of alcoholism. Bob developed the Twelve Step program of spiritual and character development. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio, to help alcoholics stay sober and help others achieve sobriety.
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