Bill Wilson wrote the basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous; Time magazine called him one of the 100 most important people of ...

According to the A.A. website, the Big Book "presents the A.A. program for recovery from alcoholism. First published in 1939, ...

To fill the void in this new era of social distancing, Alcoholics Anonymous has, out of necessity, brought its gatherings online.

Many who arrive are on a sort of pilgrimage as they fight the same battles with addiction the founder of A.A. endured for ...

Sitting in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Holly Whitaker couldn’t wrap her mind around the words “Hi, my name is Holly, and I’m an alcoholic.” For one: Was she even an alcoholic? Yes,… ...

Alcoholics Anonymous has a simple explanation for an alcoholic's physical disease. It was provided them by the head of one of New York City's oldest and most famous "cure" sanitariums. The ...

In Alcoholics Anonymous, he sponsors three members, but he isn't sold on the anonymous aspect of the program. "It suggests that there’s a stigma and that we have to hide," Perry told the Times ...

Like my brothers and sisters in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I struggled with the characteristic “restlessness, irritability, and discontentedness” for years – until I discovered ...

Anthony B. used to get to his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings early enough to set up the folding chairs synonymous with the gatherings. For Anthony it was a small way to contribute and also spend ...