12 Step Program
What Is A 12 Step Program ?
The standard for recovery from nearly any type of addiction, the Alcoholics Anonymous model of 12 steps and 12 traditions is one of the oldest treatment programs around. Drug addiction treatment programs encourage patients to participate in self-help group therapy during and after formal treatment. These groups can be particularly helpful during recovery, offering an added layer of community-level social support to help people achieve and maintain abstinence and other healthy lifestyle behaviors over the course of a lifetime.
The 12 Steps were created by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous to establish guidelines to overcome an addiction to alcohol. The program gained enough success in its early years for other addiction support groups to adapt the steps to their own needs.
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12 STEPS AS DEFINED BY ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:
- Admit powerlessness: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Find hope: Believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Surrender: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him to be.
- Take inventory: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Share inventory: Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Become ready: We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Ask God: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- List amends: Make a list of all those we have harmed and make amends to them all.
- Make amends: Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue inventory: Take a personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- Pray and meditate: Through prayer and meditation to improve our consciousness and connect with God. We do this to understand Him, praying only for His knowledge will give us the power to carry that out.
- Help others: Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles.
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12 Step Program
The 12 Steps were created by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous to establish guidelines to overcome an addiction to alcohol. The program gained enough success in its early years for other addiction support groups to adapt the steps to their own needs.