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'''Alcoholics Anonymous''' is a program created to help drunkards on the path to recovery from [[alcoholism|drunkenness]]. Founded on June 10th, 1935 in Akron, [[Ohio]] by Bill W. and Dr. Bob, it utilizes a twelve step program to help those suffering from [[alcoholic drink|alcohol]] [[addiction]] to overcome their addiction, relying on [[faith]] in a "higher power". Both Wilson and Smith were members of the Oxford Group, a Christian reform movement started by Lutheran minister Frank Buchman, until about 1939 when the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" was published.
'''Alcoholics Anonymous''' is a program created to help alcoholics on the path to recovery from [[alcoholism]]. Founded on June 10th, 1935 in Akron, [[Ohio]] by Bill W. and Dr. Bob, it utilizes a twelve step program to help those suffering from [[alcoholic drink|alcohol]] [[addiction]] to overcome their addiction, relying on [[faith]] in a "higher power". Both Wilson and Smith were members of the Oxford Group, a Christian reform movement started by Lutheran minister Frank Buchman, until about 1939 when the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" was published.
== The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous ==
== The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous ==
#Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
#Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
#Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
#Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
#Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to drunkards, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
#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.
==The Success of 12-Step Programs==
==The Success of 12-Step Programs==