No Going Back
September 2017
By:
Stephanie B.
| Albany, New York
After a long, difficult drive, she finally reached the ocean. This time, she was determined to change
Big, Beautiful & Wild
December 2016
By:
Brian M
| Portchester, New York
With grizzly bears and bighorn sheep for neighbors, how was he ever going to stay sober?
Third Step Surgery
September 2014
By:
Sam Marie E.,
| Atlanta, Georgia
Used to self-medicating with alcohol, she found herself looking to the Steps
No escape
February 2010
By:
SUE N.
| Menomonee Falls, Wis.
Drinking for relief stops working for this bar-hopping mother of two
You've got to give to get
June 2009
By:
JOHN L.
| Seabrook, Texas
A loner on the fringes of AA finds the courage to seek out a sponsor
He Lived Only to Drink
December 2001
I had been preached to, analyzed, cursed, and counseled, but no one had ever said, 'I identify with what's going on with you. It happened to me and this is what I did about it.'
More Than a Meeting in Print
September 1995
Carrying the message through the Grapevine representative network.
Stepping Into the Sunlight
November 1989
By:
E. K.
| La Canada, California
Step Eleven - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
The Sanest I've Ever Been
July 2008
By:
Erin H.
| Concord, California
An alcoholic's daughter finds her own program
It Works For Me
September 2007
By:
Paul M.
| Riverside, Illinois
Sober sixty years, a member reflects on AA's principles
The Fugitives
May 2004
By:
Dennis W.
| Tucson, Arizona
They just kept running until they came to the end of their long, painful rope
Doctors On Call
September 2003
By:
Omar M.
| Charlotte, North Carolina
This time, the patient emergency was the doctor on call
Some Thoughts Regarding Our Relationship to Alcoholics Anonymous
April 1999
By:
Narcotics Anonymous World Service B
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
November 1998
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity.
Anonymity: Giver of Life
November 1990
By:
B. P.
| Contoocook, New Hampshire
Eleventh Tradition - Our public relations policy is based on the attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.