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12-step help for shopaholics. Gina Roberts-Grey. Updated July 14, 2016 at 8:57 PM. It's pretty common knowledge that alcoholics, gamblers and drug addicts have support groups and 12-step programs ...
FAA – Food Addicts Anonymous. GA – Gamblers Anonymous. Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen, for friends and family members of problem gamblers. HA – Heroin Anonymous. LAA – Love Addicts Anonymous. MA – Marijuana Anonymous. NA – Narcotics Anonymous. N/A – Neurotics Anonymous, for recovery from mental and emotional illness.
Each group is a self-governing entity, with AA World Services acting only in an advisory capacity. AA is served entirely by alcoholics, except for seven "nonalcoholic friends of the fellowship" of the 21-member AA Board of Trustees. [40] AA groups are self-supporting, relying on voluntary contributions from members to cover expenses. [40]
Compulsive buying disorder is tightly associated with excessive or poorly managed urges related to the purchase of the items and spending of currency in any form; digital, mobile, credit or cash. [ 26] Four phases have been identified in compulsive buying: anticipation, preparation, shopping, and spending.
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. [1]
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous ( SLAA) is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction. SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976, by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he repeatedly acted out and was serially unfaithful to his wife.
Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a twelve-step program for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships. [1] [2] [3] Co-Dependents Anonymous was founded by Ken and Mary Richardson and the first CoDA meeting attended by 30 people was held October 22, 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona .
Non-Twelve-Step recovery programs. LifeRing Secular Recovery. Rational Recovery. Narconon. Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.) Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance - DBSA. Parents Anonymous. SMART Recovery. Refuge Recovery.