Members share their stories of recovery and of finding support and acceptance in A.A. meetings NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The principles of Alcoholics Anonymous encourage the ideals of ...

Step one, admitting the inability to control one’s drinking and the resulting unmanageability of one’s life (A.A.’s Step One: Confrontation With Reality), often leads to a feeling described as ...

Step two of Alcoholics Anonymous rescued people entering recovery from the demoralizing hopelessness of step one’s admission of powerlessness over alcohol and other drugs’ destructive effects, but the ...

For many in recovery for substance use, the best part of a meeting isn’t the group discussion. It’s the feeling of being together with others who support and understand them.

NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The messaging developed in our two new Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) Public Service Announcements (PSAs), "Sobriety in A.A.: My Drinking Built a Wall" and "…When ...

One day at a time. That's one of the main mottos for those recovering in Alcoholics Anonymous, (A.A.) an organization which can trace its roots back to the parlor of a modest hotel in Vermont. That ...

An occasional feature in which readers write about living with chronic conditions. For over 17 years, I have been a volunteer at the National Institutes of Health, counseling in the substance ...

Alcoholics Anonymous just turned 90 years old A.A. started booming in popularity after a 1941 article in The Saturday Evening Post Typically, A.A. meetings are held at churches and other local meeting ...