Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcholics Anonymous Guide
Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization of voluntary which was created in 1935 to help alcoholics to practice to get sobriety. It’s the Mr. Bill Wilson’s idea; a onetime financier that is career in Finance was devastated by alcoholism.
While other patients who suffer from acute alcohol poisoning effects attend a hospital, Bill Wilson experienced what he called a spiritual experience and he could heal himself in his new receipt and belief in God.
After leaving hospital he teamed up with Doctor Bob Smith and together they went about their joint vocation of helping and curing alcoholics. The venture was hugely successful and in 1939 Bill Wilson wrote a book entitled Alcoholics Anonymous which launched the organization we know today.
At the moment there are more than 106,000 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting groups and the organization has spread around the world. The requirements for joining Alcoholics Anonymous are that only have to be an alcoholic who wants to stop. There is no payment or fee thus the foundation receives its funding from private donations.
The alcoholism treatment concept as a disease was the result of Dr. William Silkworth’s idea, the doctor who has treated Bob Wilson in New York hospital, where here his spiritual experience that put him on the way of creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.
As alcoholic anonymous grew during the late 1930s and early 1940s, it became more structured and the 12 basic principles were developed that are still the backbone of the organization today. The original 12 principles were:
• Admitting their lives have been ruled by alcoholism
• Believing God could cure alcoholism
• Putting themselves in hands of God
• Honest self evaluation
• Self confession of wrongs enacted
• Preparedness for God to remove bad characteristics
• Requesting that God remove these bad characteristics
• Listing the people they had harmed and committing to redress wrongs done
• Actually making any amends possible
• Continuous self evaluation and admission of any continuing faults
• Promising to try to recognize God and the plans to recover alcoholics
• Committing to help other practicing alcoholics
It is clear from these original mission statements or principles that Alcoholics Anonymous had a basic grounding in the belief of God; but as the fellowship has grown, over the passage of a number of years, these principles have become more generalized in order not to alienate, or make themselves untenable to alcoholics who desperately needed and wanted help but saw religion as a barrier to acquiring that help.
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