It’s a comment I’ve heard often in my years helping those with addictions: “I tried AA, but I just couldn’t get past the God part.” The "God part," of course, refers to the references to ...

AA's official literature has traces of 1950s-era sexism, but the program can still be tremendously beneficial for female alcoholics. By Amy Gutman. July 12, 2013. Share. Save. Rod Senna/flickr.

To me, my story absolutely still belongs in AA literature, with a recent update; call it an epilogue. The pamphlet is, after all, titled "Young People and AA." ...

Alcoholics Anonymous literature (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Sean Clancy) Support groups are especially crucial now, Lackey says, when people are isolated from others and cut off from their normal ...

My favorite two sentences in the Alcoholics Anonymous literature are: “Alcoholics Anonymous does not demand that you believe anything. All of its twelve steps are but suggestions.” When a ...

So in November 2005, when May agreed to begin attending meetings at Midtown, one of the oldest and largest AA groups in the Washington, D.C., area, it felt like a miracle. Other AA meetings in the ...

The "God part," of course, refers to the references to God and spirituality that appear in Alcoholics Anonymous literature—the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, in particular—as well as to the more ...