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The AA Preamble, inspired by the Foreword of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, was written by one of the Grapevine's early editors Tom. Y. and first appeared in the June 1947 issue. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In 1986, it was reaffirmed as AA's international journal by the General Service Conference.
In 1939, her psychiatrist Dr. Harry Tiebout gave her a pre-publication manuscript of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and persuaded her to attend her first AA meeting. This meeting took place at the home of Lois and Bill W (co-founder of AA) at 182 Clinton Street in Brooklyn, New York. [1] Marty was romantically involved with Priscilla Peck for ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), the first twelve-step fellowship, was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, known to AA members as "Bill W." and "Dr. Bob", in Akron, Ohio. In 1946 they formally established the twelve traditions to help deal with the issues of how various groups could relate and function as membership grew.
Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson wrote in the February 1958 AA Grapevine that We cannot give AA membership to non-alcoholic narcotics-addicts. But like anyone else, they should be able to attend certain open AA meetings, provided, of course, that the groups themselves are willing. AA members who are so inclined should be encouraged to ...
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Its slogan "an AA meeting in print" was adopted after receiving supportive letters from AA members in overseas military. 1945 AA adopted the AA Grapevine as its national journal. 1946 in April, AA Grapevine first published the Twelve Traditions (in the long/original form) as Twelve Points to Assure Our Future.
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]