Welcome, Professionals
The AA Grapevine is an effective tool for members of the professional
community who are working with recovering alcoholics. It is also a source of
information on the foundation, history, and growth of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Grapevine paints a picture of the Fellowship in action through members’
stories and letters. It is a place to gain a deeper understanding of the disease
of alcoholism and the alcoholic’s suffering, and to see how Alcoholics Anonymous
can help someone get and then stay sober.
Online or in print, the magazine can help you:
- Know what it is like to be an alcoholic, both in the active phase and in recovery.
- Gather insight on how AA works and its singleness of purpose.
- Learn more about alcoholism and the family, women in AA, alcoholism and mental illness, AA in prison, young people, newcomers, and old-timers.
- Stay current on AA issues and recent issues in recovery.
Specific topics include:
- How the AA program works, not in theory but in practice.
- How AA can help an alcoholic face life’s challenges while remaining sober.
- How the disease continues to have an effect on an alcoholic after he/she is in recovery.
- Why alcoholics continue to go to meetings after they’ve stopped drinking.
- How alcoholics use therapy and other professional assistance along with AA in their recovery.
- How Alcoholics Anonymous cooperates with treatment facilities.
- How newcomers can make the difficult transition from treatment to AA.
- What happens at an AA meeting, what a sponsor is, what the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are.
Resources from the AA World Service website:
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For our friends to recommend us, they must
understand us. And for that, we are responsible.
If Our Message Is Clear. . .
Don P., Aurora, CO
Grapevine, May 1988 |
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