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2. Twelve-step program - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

3. List of twelve-step groups - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific twelve-step recovery programs and fellowships.These programs, and the groups of people who follow them, are based on the set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, or other behavioral problems originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous. [1]

4. Alcoholics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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   Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Steps exhibit at A.A. Intergroup in Akron, Ohio. AA's program extends beyond abstaining from alcohol. [ 58 ] Its goal is to effect enough change in the alcoholic's thinking "to bring about recovery from alcoholism" [ 59 ] through "an entire psychic change," or spiritual awakening. [ 60 ]

5. Twelve Traditions - Wikipedia

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   Other twelve-step programs make small changes to the original Twelve Traditions used in Alcoholics Anonymous and offer interpretations specific to their programs. The Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), the second largest twelve-step program, are as stated in the above (short form only) with all instances of AA replaced with NA, the ...

6. History of Alcoholics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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   1953 The Twelve Traditions were published in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. [82] [83] 1953 Narcotics Anonymous received permission from AA to use the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in its own program. [84] 1955 Second Edition of the Big Book released; estimated 150,000 AA members. [85] 1957 Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age ...

7. State awards $8M in recovery program funding - AOL

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   The model, which provides both affordability and accountability within a dedicated community, is essential to Alcoholics Anonymous and subsequent 12-step programs which have long been the bedrock ...