The Twelve Traditions are AA's advisory guidelines for members, groups and the rest of its organization. Divining and following the will of God "as we understood Him" is also urged by the Steps, but differing spiritual practices and persuasions, as well as non-theist members, are accepted and accommodated. Though not explicitly prescribed, this is often done by sponsoring other alcoholics. Members are then suggested to take other alcoholics through the steps.
The Twelve Steps are presented as a suggested and continuing self-improvement program to effect a spiritual awakening after an alcoholic has conceded powerlessness over alcohol and acknowledged its damage, as well as having listed and strived to correct personal failings and by making amends for misdeeds. Subsequent editions included the Twelve Traditions adopted in 1950 to formalize and unify the fellowship, which Wilson, the main author of the Traditions, called “a benign anarchy”. Known as the "Big Book", and as the source of AA’s name, it contains their creation, the Twelve Steps. In 1939 the new fellowship, then mostly male and white, published Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism. The two met through AA's immediate precursor the Christian revivalist Oxford Group and associated there in aid to alcoholics until leaving to form AA. In 1935, the recognized start, of AA, Bill Wilson (Bill W) first commiserated ialcoholic to alcoholic with Bob Smith (Dr. Most studies in the review also found that AA participation led to lower health costs. Regarding its effectiveness, a 2020 scientific review showed that within all observed demographic groups clinical interventions intended to increase AA participation (AA Twelve Step Facilitation, AA/TSF) resulted in higher abstinence rates compared to other well-established treatments. ĪA holds no opinion on the disease model of alcoholism-or on any medical issue, but many AA members have taken a large role in making it popular.
In 2020 AA estimated its worldwide membership to be over two million, with 75% of those from US-from where it originated-and from Canada. Following its Twelve Traditions, AA is non-professional and non-denominational as well as apolitical and unaffiliated. Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA) is a peer-led mutual aiddedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.
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