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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]
He attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, cleans up his appearance, and attends helicopter-flying lessons. He remains sober by the episode's end, though his alcoholism is replaced by an unhealthy dependence on coffee. [212] Bloody Mary - A 2005 episode of the animated TV series South Park where Randy Marsh must attend AA meetings after getting ...
1957 Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age was published. [86] 1962 The Twelve Concepts for World Service were adopted by AA as a guideline for international issues. [87] 1962 The movie Days of Wine and Roses depicted an alcoholic in AA. [88] 1971 Bill Wilson dies. His last words to AA members were "God bless you and Alcoholics Anonymous forever." [81]
Meetings can be mixed (meaning both men and women attend) or gender-specific (men-only meetings vs. women-only meetings). Meetings that are advertised as closed are “open only to those individuals who have a desire to stop their addictive behavior"; in contrast, open meetings are “open to anyone interested in…SAA,” regardless of whether ...
San Mateo [a] (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ oʊ / ⓘ SAN mə-TAY-oh) is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.About 20 miles (32 km) south of San Francisco, the city borders Burlingame to the north, Hillsborough to the west, San Francisco Bay and Foster City to the east and Belmont to the south.
Sherkat also found that 16% of the Jewish people surveyed agreed with the statement about a 'higher power', while 13.2% of liberal Protestants and 10.6% of Episcopalians also agreed with it. [ 11 ] An empirically based recovery framework likened faith in a higher power to motivation for personal growth as described by Abraham Maslow and Carl ...
The majority of SOS members planned long-term affiliation with SOS. Nearly every member surveyed had been exposed to AA, the average rate of AA attendance amongst SOS members in the previous month was 4.5 meetings. [3] A 2007 survey of addiction recovery groups found that religiosity correlated negatively with participation in SOS. [6]
SA received permission from Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to use its Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1979. [2] Roy K. died from cancer on the afternoon of September 15, 2009. [4] He claimed that he had been sexually sober since January 31, 1976. [5]