These 12 celebrities detailed their experiences attending Alcoholics Anonymous and how it's saved their lives during crucial ...

The number 12 has always been important in our lives, whether we have been aware of it or not. There are 12 months in a year, 12 eggs in a ...

If you fail in AA, it's you that's failed. On why 12-step programs can work. The reason that the 5 to 10 percent do well in AA actually doesn't have to do with the 12 steps themselves; ...

Criticism of Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve-Step programs is nothing new, but every now and then the widely accepted approach to addiction and recovery gets a fresh whack upside the head.

To explain further, Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups have an image, a stereotype, in our culture. Attend a meeting, sit in a circle, talk about recovery, leave.

The 12 Steps refer to the issue of the individual versus the collective both directly, when the issue of human will is discussed, and indirectly, when they speak of God or a "higher power." ...

AA Step 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 in all our affairs.” Applying to my cancer: I ...

We're all equals in AA, Al-Anon and other 12-step programs. We do not endorse his comments, nor is he endorsed as a representative of AA. It's one thing for him to discuss his own personal recovery.

Conversely, 12-step facilitation programs adopt some of the principles and techniques of AA and are delivered by clinicians, although many people with AUD engage in both.

Since its founding in 1935, the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step model has been used as the basis of 30 other fellowships, including Gamblers Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.

The 12 Steps of AA derive from Protestant proselytizing techniques. Caveat: While this post may seem critical of some aspects of 12 Step Programs, I want to emphasize that, while recent studies ...