{"id":103152,"date":"2023-04-01T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/?page_id=103152"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:39:23","slug":"voici-les-aa-une-introduction-au-programme-de-retablissement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/resources\/all-leaflets\/voici-les-aa-une-introduction-au-programme-de-retablissement\/","title":{"rendered":"This is A.A. &#8211;  An introduction to the A.A. 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elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"994eabd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/P-1-This-is-A.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-86523\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/P-1-This-is-A.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/P-1-This-is-A-129x300.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9536d35\" data-id=\"9536d35\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7afd299 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7afd299\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u00ae is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">\u2022 The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.<br \/>\u2022 A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses<br \/>nor opposes any causes.<br \/>\u2022 Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-ee195c0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ee195c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-95da275\" data-id=\"95da275\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49d337d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49d337d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Only you can decide<\/strong><\/p><p>If you seem to be having trouble with your drinking, or if your drinking has reached the point where it worries you a bit, you may be interested in knowing something about Alcoholics Anonymous and the A.A. program of recovery from alcoholism. After reading this brief outline, you may decide that A.A. has nothing to offer you. Should this be the case, we suggest only that you keep an open mind on the subject. Consider your drinking carefully in the light of what you may learn from these pages. Determine, for yourself, whether or not alcohol has truly become a problem for you. And remember that you will always be most welcome to join the thousands of men and women in A.A. who have put their drinking problems behind them and now lead \u201cnormal\u201d lives of constructive, day-by-day sobriety.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-001a45a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"001a45a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Who we are<\/strong><\/p><p>We in A.A. are men and women who have discovered, and admitted, that we cannot control alcohol. We have learned that we must live without it if we are to avoid disaster for ourselves and those close to us.<br \/>With local groups in thousands of communities, we are part of an informal international fellowship, which now has members in more than 180 countries. We have but one primary purpose: to stay sober ourselves and to help others who may turn to us for help in achieving sobriety.\u00a0\u00a0 We are not reformers, and we are not allied with any group, cause, or religious denomination. We have no wish to dry up the world. We do not recruit new members, but we do welcome them. We do not impose our experience with problem drinking on others, but we do share it when we are asked to do so.<\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">\u00a0 Within our membership may be found men\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">and women of all ages and many different social,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">economic, and cultural backgrounds. Some of us\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">drank for many years before coming to the realization\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">we could not handle alcohol. Others were\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">fortunate enough to appreciate, early in life or in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">their drinking careers, that alcohol had become\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">unmanageable.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">\u00a0 \u00a0The consequences of our alcoholic drinking\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">have also varied. A few of us had become derelicts\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">before turning to A.A. for help. Some had\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">lost family, possessions, and self-respect. We had\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">been on skid row in many cities. Some of us had\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">been hospitalized or jailed times without number.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">We had committed grave offenses \u2014 against society,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">our families, our employers, and ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89ad5dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89ad5dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Others among us have never been jailed or hospitalized. Nor had we lost jobs or families through drinking. But we finally came to a point with normal living. When we discovered that we\u00a0could not live without alcohol, we, too, sought help through A.A. All the great faiths are represented in our Fellowship, and many religious leaders have encouraged our growth. There are also atheists and agnostics among us. Belief in, or adherence to, a formal creed is not a condition of membership. We are united by our common problem, alcohol. Meeting and talking and helping other alcoholics,\u00a0together we are somehow able to stay sober and to lose the compulsion to drink, once a\u00a0dominant force in our lives. We do not think we are the only people who have the answer to problem drinking. We know that the A.A. program works for us, and we have seen it work for every newcomer, almost withoutexception, who honestly and sincerely wanted to quit drinking. Through A.A., we have learned a number of things about alcoholism and about ourselves. We try to keep these facts fresh in our thinking at all times, because they seem to be the key to oursobriety. For us, sobriety must always come first.<\/p><p><strong>What we have learned about alcoholism<\/strong><br \/>The first thing we have learned about alcoholism is that it is one of the oldest problems in history. Only recently have we begun to benefit from new approaches to the problem. Doctors today, for example, know a great deal more about alcoholism than their predecessors did only two generations ago. They are beginning to define the problem and study it in detail. While there is no formal \u201cA.A. definition\u201d of alcoholism, most of us agree that, for us, it could be described as a physical compulsion, coupled with a mental obsession. We mean that we had a distinct physical desire to consume alcohol beyond our capacity to control it, and in defiance of all rules of common sense. We not only had an abnormal craving for alcohol, but we frequently\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">yielded to it at the worst possible times. We did not know when (or how) to stop drinking. Often, we did not seem to have sense enough to know\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">when not to begin.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a772d2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a772d2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As alcoholics, we have learned the hard way that willpower alone, however strong in other respects, was not enough to keep us sober. We have tried laying off for specified periods. We have taken solemn pledges. We have switched brands and beverages. We have tried drinking only during certain hours. But none of our plans worked. We always wound up, sooner or later, by getting drunk when we not only wanted to stay sober, but had every rational incentive for staying sober.<br \/>We have gone through stages of dark despair when we were sure that there was something wrong with us mentally. We came to hate ourselves for wasting the talents with which we had been endowed and for the trouble we were causing our families and others. Frequently, we indulged in self-pity and proclaimed that nothing could ever help us.\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">We can smile at those recollections now, but at the time they were grim, unpleasant experiences.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Alcoholism \u2014 an illness<span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Today we are willing to accept the idea that, as far as we are concerned, alcoholism is an illness, a progressive illness which can never be \u201ccured,\u201d but which, like some other illnesses, can be arrested. We agree that there is nothing shameful\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">about having an illness, provided we face the problem honestly and try to do something about it. We are perfectly willing to admit that we are allergic to alcohol and that it is simply common\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">sense to stay away from the source of our allergy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>We understand now that once a person has crossed the invisible borderline from heavy drinking to compulsive alcoholic drinking, that person will always remain an alcoholic. So far as we know, there can never be any turning back to \u201cnormal\u201d social drinking. \u201cOnce an alcoholic, always an alcoholic\u201d is a simple fact we have to live with.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d0be58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d0be58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We have also learned that there are few alternatives for alcoholics. If they continue to drink, their problem will become progressively worse; they seem assuredly on the path to skid row, to hospitals, to jails or other institutions, or to early graves. The only alternative is to stop drinking completely, to abstain from even the smallest quantity of alcohol in any form. If they are willing to follow this course, and to take advantage of the<br \/>help available to them, a whole new life can open up for alcoholics.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 There were times in our drinking careers when we were convinced that all we had to do to control our drinking was to quit after the second drink, the fifth, or some other number. Only gradually<br \/>did we come to appreciate that it was not the fifth or the tenth or the twentieth drink that got us drunk; it was the first! The first drink was the one that did the damage. The first drink was the one that started us on our merry-go-rounds. The first drink was the one that set up a chain reaction of alcoholic thinking that led to our uncontrolled drinking.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A.A. has a way of expressing this: \u201cFor an alcoholic, one drink is too many and a thousand are not enough.\u201d Another thing that many of us learned during our drinking days was that enforced sobriety was<br \/>generally not a very pleasant experience. Some of us were able to stay sober, occasionally, for periods of days, weeks, and even years. But we did not enjoy our sobriety. We felt like martyrs. We became irritable, difficult to live and work with. We persisted in looking forward to the time when we might be able to drink again.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Now that we are in A.A., we have a new outlook on sobriety. We enjoy a sense of release, a feeling of freedom from even the desire to drink. Since we cannot expect to drink normally at any time in the future, we concentrate on living a full life without alcohol today. There is not a thing we can do about yesterday. And tomorrow never comes. Today is the only day we have to worry about. And we know from experience that even the \u201cworst\u201d drunks can go twenty-four hours<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0eaa0f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0eaa0f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>without a drink. They may need to postpone that next drink to the next hour, even the next minute \u2014 but they learn that it can be put off for a period of time.\u00a0 When we first heard about A.A., it seemed miraculous that anyone who had really been an uncontrolled drinker could ever achieve and maintain the kind of sobriety that older A.A. members talked about. Some of us were inclined to think that ours was a special kind of drinking, that our experiences had been \u201cdifferent,\u201d thatA.A. might work for others, but that it could do\u00a0nothing for us. Others among us, who had not yet been hurt seriously by their drinking, reasoned that A.A. might be fine for the skid row drunks, but that they could probably handle the problem by themselves.<br \/>\u00a0 Our experience in A.A. has taught us two important things. First, all alcoholics face the same basic problems, whether they are panhandling for the price of a short beer or holding down an executive position in a big corporation.\u00a0Second, we now appreciate that the A.A. recovery program works for almost any alcoholic who honestly wants it to work, no matter what the individual\u2019s background or particular drinking pattern may have been.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6462b6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6462b6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We made a decision<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">All of us now in A.A. had to make one crucial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">decision before we felt secure in the new program\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">of life without alcohol. We had to face the facts\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">about ourselves and our drinking realistically and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">honestly. We had to admit that we were powerless\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">over alcohol. For some\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>was explained to us that alcoholism was an illness. We saw the common sense of doing something about an illness that threatened to destroy us. We quit trying to deceive others \u2014 and ourselves \u2014 into thinking that we could handle alcohol when all the facts pointed the other way.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We were assured from the beginning that no one could tell us we were alcoholics. The admission had to come from us \u2014 not from a doctor or a minister or wife or husband. It had to be based on facts which we ourselves knew. Our friends might understand the nature of our problem, but we were the only ones who could tell for sure whether or not our drinking was out of control.\u00a0 Frequently we asked: \u201cHow can I tell if I am really an alcoholic?\u201d We were told that there were no hard and fast rules for determining alcoholism. We learned that there were, however, certain telltale symptoms. If we got drunk when we had every reason to stay sober, if our drinking had become progressively worse, if we no longer got as much fun from drinking as we once had \u2014 these, we learned, were apt to be symptoms of the illness we call alcoholism. Reviewing our drinking experiences and their consequences, most of us were able to discover additional reasons for recognizing the truth about ourselves.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Quite naturally, the prospect of a life without alcohol seemed a dreary one. We feared that our new friends in A.A. would be dull or, worse yet, wild-eyed evangelists. We discovered that they were, instead, human beings like ourselves, but with the special virtue of understanding our problem \u2014 sympathetically, without sitting in judgment.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We began to wonder what we had to do to stay sober, what membership in A.A. would cost, and who ran the organization, locally and worldwide. We soon discovered that there are no musts in A.A., that no one is required to follow any formal ritual or pattern of living. We learned also that A.A. has no dues or fees of any kind; expenses of meeting rooms, refreshments, and literature are met by passing the hat. But even contributions of this kind are not a requirement for membership.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f535ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f535ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It soon became apparent to us that A.A. has only a minimum of organization and has nobody giving orders. Arrangements for meetings are handled by group officers who move on regularly to make room for new people. This \u201crotation\u201d system is very popular in A.A.<\/p><p><strong>Staying sober<\/strong><\/p><p>How, then, do we manage to stay sober in such an informal, loosely knit fellowship? The answer is that, once having achieved sobriety, we try to preserve it by observing and following the successful experience of those who have preceded us in A.A. Their experience provides certain \u201ctools\u201d and guides which we are free to accept or reject, as we may choose. Because our sobriety is the most important thing in our lives today, we think it wise to follow the patterns suggested by those who have already demonstrated that the A.A. recovery program really works.<\/p><p><strong>The 24-hour plan<\/strong><\/p><p>For example, we take no pledges, we don\u2019t say that we will \u201cnever\u201d drink again. Instead, we try to follow what we in A.A. call the \u201c24-hour plan.\u201d We concentrate on keeping sober just the current twenty-four hours. We simply try to get through one day at a time without a drink. If we feel the urge for a drink, we neither yield nor resist. We merely put off taking that particular drink until tomorrow.<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We try to keep our thinking honest and realistic where alcohol is concerned. If we are tempted to drink \u2014 and the temptation usually fades after the first few months in A.A. \u2014 we ask ourselves whether the particular drink we have in mind would be worth all the consequences we have experienced from drinking in the past. We bear in mind that we are perfectly free to get drunk, if\u00a0we want to, that the choice between drinking and not drinking is entirely up to us. Most important of all, we try to face up to the fact that, no matter<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bb2b8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1bb2b8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>how long we may have been dry, we will always be alcoholics \u2014 and alcoholics, as far as we know, can never again drink socially or normally. We follow the experience of the successful \u201coldtimers\u201d in another respect. We usually keep coming regularly to meetings of the local\u00a0A.A. group with which we have become affiliated. There is no rule which makes such attendance compulsory. Nor can we always explain why we seem to get a lift out of hearing the personal stories and interpretations of other members. Most of us, however, feel that attendance at meetings and other informal contacts with fellow A.A.s are important factors in the maintenance of our sobriety.<\/p><p><strong>Twelve Steps<\/strong><\/p><p>Early in our association with A.A. we heard about the \u201cTwelve Steps\u201d of recovery from alcoholism. We learned that these Steps represented an attempt by the first members to record their own progress from uncontrolled drinking to sobriety. We discovered that a key factor in this progress seemed to be humility, coupled with reliance upon a Power greater than ourselves. While some members prefer to call this Power \u201cGod,\u201d we were told that this was purely a matter of personal interpretation; we could conceive of the Power in any terms we thought fit. Since alcohol had obviously been a power greater than ourselves during our drinking days, we had to admit that perhaps we could not run the whole show ourselves and that it made sense to turn elsewhere for help. As we have grown in A.A., our concept of a greater Power has usually become more mature. But it has always been our personal concept; no one has forced it upon us.<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fc66fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4fc66fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Finally, we noted from the Twelfth Step and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">from the experience of older members, that work&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">with other alcoholics who turned to A.A. for help&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">was an effective way of strengthening our own&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">sobriety. Whenever possible, we tried to do our&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">share, always keeping in mind that the other&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">person was the only one who could determine&nbsp;<\/span>whether or not he or she was an alcoholic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">&nbsp; We were also guided by the experience of the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">many A.A.s who have given new meaning to three&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">time-worn sayings or slogans. \u201cFirst Things First\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">is one of the slogans, reminding us that, much as&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">we would like to try, we cannot do everything at&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">once, that we have to remember the prior importance&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">of sobriety in any attempt to rebuild our&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">lives.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cEasy Does It\u201d is another old slogan with new&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">meaning for alcoholics who are frequently guilty&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">of working too feverishly at whatever they are&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">doing. Experience shows that alcoholics should,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">and can, learn to pace themselves. \u201cLive and Let&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Live\u201d is the third slogan, a recurring suggestion&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">that alcoholics, no matter how many years of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">sobriety they have, cannot afford to let themselves&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">become intolerant of others.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">A.A. books and pamphlets are also helpful.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Soon after we came into A.A., most of us had&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">an opportunity to read Alcoholics Anonymous,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">A.A.\u2019s book of experience in which early members&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">first recorded their stories and the principles&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">which they believed had helped them to recover.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Many members, sober for years, continue to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">refer to this and other<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">&nbsp; &nbsp;A.A. books for insight and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">inspiration. (They are all listed at the end of this&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">pamphlet.) A.A. also publishes an international&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">monthly magazine called the AA Grapevine for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">newcomers and oldtimers alike.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Because A.A. is essentially a way of life, few&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">of us have ever been able to describe with complete&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">accuracy just how the various elements in&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">the recovery program contribute to our present&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 );\">sobriety. We do not all interpret or live the A.A.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">program in exactly the same way. We can all testify,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">however, that A.A. works for us when many&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">other ventures into sobriety have failed. Many&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">members who have been sober for years say that&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">they simply accepted the program \u201con faith\u201d and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">do not yet fully understand how A.A. works for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">them. Meanwhile, they keep trying to pass their&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">faith along to others who still understand all too&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">well the disastrous way in which alcohol works&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-377ca00 ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">against the alcoholic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a6f085 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a6f085\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Will A.A. work for everyone?<\/strong><\/p><p>The A.A. program of recovery from alcoholism, we believe, will work for almost anyone who has a desire to stop drinking. It may work even for those who feel they are being prodded in the direction of A.A. Many of us made our first contact with A.A. because of social or job pressures. Later, we made our own decision.<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We have seen some alcoholics stumble for a while before \u201cgetting\u201d the program. We have seen others who made only token efforts to follow the tested principles through which over a millionof us now maintain our sobriety; token efforts are generally not enough.<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 But, no matter how down-and-out an alcoholic may be, or how high he or she may be on the social and economic scales, we know from experience and observation that A.A. offers a sober way out of the squirrel cage of confused problem drinking. Most of us have found it an easy way.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 When we first turned to A.A., many of us had a number of serious problems \u2014 problems involving money, family, job, and our own personalities. We soon discovered that our immediate central problem was alcohol. Once we had that problem under control, we were able to make successful approaches to the other problems. Solutions to these problems have not always come easily, but we have been able to cope with them far more effectively when sober than we were able to do during our drinking days.<\/p><p><strong>\u2018A new dimension\u2019<\/strong><\/p><p>There was a time when many of us believed that alcohol was the only thing that made life bearable. We could not even dream of a life without drinking. Today, through the A.A. program, we do not feel that we have been deprived of anything. Rather, we have been freed and find that a new dimension has been added to our lives.<br \/>We have new friends, new horizons, and new attitudes. After years of despair and frustration, many of us feel that we have really begun to live for the first time. We enjoy sharing that new life<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f687c00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f687c00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>with anyone who is still suffering from alcoholism, as we once suffered, and who seeks a way out of the darkness and into the light. Alcoholism is one of the major American health problems. It has been estimated that millions of men and women continue to suffer, perhaps unnecessarily, from this progressive illness. As members of A.A. we welcome the opportunity to share our experience in arresting this illness with anyone who seeks help. We appreciate that nothing we can say will have any real meaning until the alcoholic personally is ready to admit as we once did, \u201cAlcohol has me licked, and I want help.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>Where to find A.A.<\/strong><\/p><p>A.A. help is available without charge or obligation. There are groups of us in many cities, villages, and rural areas throughout the world. Look for \u201cA.A.\u201d or \u201cAlcoholics Anonymous\u201d as listed online or in the community telephone directory.\u00a0Information about local meetings may often be obtained from doctors and nurses, from the clergy, newspaper people, police officials, and alcoholism facilities that are familiar with our program.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Those who cannot get in touch with a group in their community are invited to write to our world service office: General Service Office, Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163 (or visit our website at aa.org). They will put you in touch with the group nearest you. If you live in a remote area and there is no nearby group, they will tell you how a number of \u201clone\u201d members are staying sober by using A.A. principles and the A.A. program.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Anyone who turns to A.A. can be assured that his or her anonymity will be protected.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 If you feel that you may have an alcoholic problem and earnestly want to stop drinking, more than two million of us can testify that A.A. is working for us \u2014 and that there is no reason in the world why it should not work for you.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-934d77b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"934d77b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>THE TWELVE STEPS<\/strong><br \/><strong>OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS<\/strong><\/p><p>1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol \u2014 that our lives had become unmanageable.<br \/>2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.<br \/>3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.<br \/>4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.<br \/>5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.<br \/>6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.<br \/>7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.<br \/>9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.<br \/>10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.<br \/>11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of<br \/>His will for us and the power to carry that out.<br \/>12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles<br \/>in all our affairs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d221509 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d221509\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>THE TWELVE TRADITIONS<\/strong><br \/><strong>OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS<\/strong><\/p><p>1. Our common welfare should come fi rst; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.<br \/>2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority \u2014 a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.<br \/>3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.<br \/>4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.<br \/>5. Each group has but one primary purpose \u2014 to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.<br \/>6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.<br \/>7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully selfsupporting, declining outside contributions.<br \/>8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.<br \/>9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.<br \/>10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.<br \/>11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of<br \/>press, radio and fi lms.<br \/>12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfb4e69 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cfb4e69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">A DECLARATION OF UNITY<br \/>This we owe to A.A.\u2019s future: To place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on A.A. unity depend our lives and the lives of those to come.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am responsible\u2026<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">When anyone, anywhere, reaches out\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">for help, I want the hand of A.A. always\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">to be there.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary );\">And for that: <b>I am responsible.<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary );\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is A.A. General Service\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">Conference-approved literature.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Professionals) or contact the Cooperation with the Professional<br \/>Community desk at the<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 by AA Grapevine, Inc.;<br \/>reprinted with permission.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2017<br \/>by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">All rights reserved.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mail address: Box 459<br \/>Grand Central Station<br \/>New York, NY 10163<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">www.aa.org<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">200M \u2013 11\/19 (DG3)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-284df33 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"284df33\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bb39fc9\" data-id=\"bb39fc9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDF format leaflet Alcoholics Anonymous\u00ae is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":84923,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-103152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 08:04:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103152"}],"version-history":[{"count":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104722,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103152\/revisions\/104722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa87.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}