10 Types of People You’ll Meet at 12-Step Meetings
by Lisa Page Rosenberg on April 26, 2015 in 12-Step Recovery In recovery meetings you'll encounter a cross-section of humanity with seemingly nothing in common... Read more » The post 10 Types of...
View ArticleTradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery...
Case Study Three: A member continuously disrupts group meetings with loud abusive and bullying behaviour towards fellow members and newcomers. Membership in the group continues... Read more » The post...
View ArticleThe Myth of Addiction as a Disease
Addiction does not meet the criteria specified for a core disease entity "Addiction does not meet the criteria specified for a core disease entity, namely... Read more » The post The Myth of Addiction...
View ArticleThe Passing of a Giant — Mark Houston
Mark David Houston, died suddenly on February 19, 2010. He was 63. Mark was born in Iowa on October 14, 1946. One of four boys,... Read more » The post The Passing of a Giant — Mark Houston appeared...
View ArticleEvery Day Is Christmas
AA Grapevine, December 1952, Vol. 9 No. 7 THE seventeenth Christmas for Alcoholics Anonymous is here. Considering all that has happened since AA's first Christmas... Read more » The post Every Day Is...
View Article‘Books That Shaped America’ from the Library of Congress
By Deirdre Donahue and Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY To kick off its new exhibition, "Books That Shaped America," the Library of Congress asked curators and... Read more » The post ‘Books That Shaped...
View ArticleIdentifying as Recovered vs. Recovering has bearing on sobriety rates.
Typically we see two recovery genres in the rooms of 12 Steps: The ‘Recovered’ Addict versus The ‘Recovering’ Addict narrative. Recovery stories are consequential for the person’s experience of...
View ArticleAlcoholics Anonymous and other 12‐step programs for alcohol use disorder
Authors’ conclusions There is high quality evidence that manualized AA/TSF interventions are more effective than other established treatments, such as CBT, for increasing abstinence. Non‐manualized...
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