12 STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS


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The following are the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (often abbreviated as A.A.). Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.

For the steps below, you can click on the More button to read comments from books and websites about that step, or click on the Working button to read about or hear people working the given step, or click on the Videos button to see videos about the given step.

You can also read a summary of the AA program in our directory site.



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Step 1

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

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Step 2

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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Step 3

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

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Step 4

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

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Step 5

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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Step 6

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

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Step 7

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

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Step 8

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

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Step 9

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

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Step 10

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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Step 11

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.

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Step 12

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.

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Alcoholics Anonymous

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