Learn the role of a sponsor in addiction recovery, including key qualities, responsibilities, benefits, and choosing the right fit in AA or NA.

Once a person recovering from alcohol or other drug addiction has established the way of life suggested by the tenth step for maintaining the benefits of recovery (see A.A.’s Step 10: A Way of Life), ...

Looking back on my experiences with leukemia and with alcoholism, I realized that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous can be applied to life with cancer. When I went into treatment for alcoholism ...

Can 12-step programs be required for release from prison? West Virginia is the latest state to end a rule requiring that inmates eligible for parole must complete a religious-based 12-step substance ...

After determining the books most frequently stolen from San Francisco public libraries' shelves focus on recovering from addiction, city officials want to provide universal access to free drug ...

Due to the inherent anonymity of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and a host of other 12-step programs that specialize in different forms of recovery, statistics on their scope are somewhat elusive; AA ...

(RNS) — The book gives daily reflection exercises, drawing on AA's famous 12-step method and portions of Jewish Scripture. (RNS) — At one of the first Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Boruch Binyamin ...

I am a grateful member of AA. I am a recovering alcoholic and was greatly helped by AA in my first 10 years of sobriety. I’m writing this because of the inaccurate and biased information presented in ...

Step one, admitting the inability to control one’s drinking and the resulting unmanageability of one’s life (A.A.’s Step One: Confrontation With Reality), often leads to a feeling described as ...