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About the booklet: In 1939 members of Alcoholics Anonymous wrote a book about the Steps they took to get well from their disease. Now these Twelve Steps are used by people with all kinds of addictions. This booklet helps us look at the Steps, work them, and in the process learn a new way of life.
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Working the Twelve Steps
Keep It Simple Series
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First published October, 1988.
Copyright 1988, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 0-89486-563-3
Printed in the United States of America.
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Contents
Introduction
1
Step One
5
Step Two
10
Step Three
15
Step Four
20
Step Five
24
Step Six
29
Step Seven
34
Step Eight
39
Step Nine
44
Step Ten
48
Step Eleven
52
Step Twelve
56
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Introduction
Chemical dependency (an addiction to alcohol and other drugs) has been a problem for people for many years maybe since humans learned that smoking or eating certain plants, or drinking aged fruit juice could make them feel good.
All through history we find warnings that too much liquor, or too much "locoweed," or too much tonic (old-time medicine) could make people become crazy. Many, many people died from that "craziness" that we now know is chemical dependency.
Until 1935, there was no known treatment that worked to help alcoholics and other drug addicts stop using mood-altering chemicals. That year the first real help for this problem was developed by alcoholics themselves. Two men, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, started a group called Alcoholics Anonymous. They met to help each other stay sober. They tried to become better people and fix up their lives. It worked. Finally there was a way for alcoholics to return to healthy living.
In 1939 the members of this group wrote a book called Alcoholics Anonymous. In this book they wrote about the Steps they took to recover from their disease. They suggested that other alcoholics could recover by taking these Steps.
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God aswe understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God aswe understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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.*
What the Twelve Steps Teach Us
These Twelve Steps are now used by people with all kinds of addictions and also by family members and friends who love them. No longer just for alcoholics, the Steps are the basis for many other recovery programs such as Al-Anon, Narcotics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous.
Principles Are Truths
The Steps are what the program refers to as "principles." A way to think about principles is that they are basic truths. Twelve Step programs are based on the truth that addicted people can recover from addiction by following these suggested Steps.
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