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October 1996

How AA Started in Panama

The following article is based on a 1954 memoir of the General Service Office in Panama, written by an early AA member there.

When I left Hospital Panama in November 1945, I wrote to AA in New York, having no idea of what would happen. What I did know was that I was desperately anxious not only to stop drinking but to stay sober.

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