Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global mutual aid fellowship dedicated solely to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined Twelve Steps. AA's organizational principles are outlined in its Twelve Traditions and Twelve Concepts. In 2021 AA estimated it was active in 180 countries with nearly two million members — 73% in the United States and Canada. AA dates its origin to a 1935 Ohio meeting between Bill Wilson, or Bill W, and Bob Smith, or Dr. Bob (for anonymity, members often go by first name and last name initial). They met through the Christian revivalist Oxford Group and continued under its aegis to fellowship with other alcoholics until forming what became AA. In 1939 the fellowship introduced its Twelve Steps with the publication of Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Known as "the Big Book", later editions amended the subtitle with "Thousands of Men and Women". The Twelve Steps are a suggested...

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