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The 12 step program Alcoholics Anonymous (AA )was born in 1934. Prohibition had been repealed and a man named Bill Watson drunkenly found his way to Manhattan Hospital. Bill was known to knock back quite a bit of whiskey every day and couldn 't seem to be able to quit. While he was in Manhattan Hospital he was given a new and considered experimental treatment for addiction of belladonna, which is a hallucinogen. Bill in his induced state, yelled to God to help free him of alcohol. He reported

Alcoholics Anonymous: The 12-Step Treatment Alcoholics Anonymous: The 12-Step Treatment The 12-step program used by Alcoholics Anonymous is a well-known treatment method that’s used for many types of addiction, not just alcohol. Alcoholics are encouraged to “work” the 12-steps. The first step involves admitting the powerlessness over alcohol. The second step has the alcoholic believe that there is some type of a greater power working that will help aide the alcoholic to reach sobriety, as

Narcotic Anonymous is a twelve-step group that allows narcotic users to meet with others who have the same problem. It is a group that allows an individual to have support from another individual who has been or is going through the same thing. The objective of these meetings is to help individuals become and remain clean (na.org). I was able to observe one of these meetings. The meeting I attended was at The Meeting House, which was in Point Pleasant at St. Paul’s Church. The meeting commenced at

Introduction A brief overview of the defining characteristics of the 12-step approach (Baldwin et al., 2011, Bateson, 1971, Jellinek, 1960, Lacan and Miller, 1998, Raikhel and Garriott, 2013, Schenker, 2009, University of Chester, 2016, Wilcox, 1998) with particular focus on its definition (NCCMH, 2008) and UK based studies (Best et al., 2001, Day et al., 2005, Harris et al., 2003) recognising the translatability of the 12-steps relating to ‘higher power’ and ‘personal responsibility’ (Appendix 1,

The 12 Step Program I attended was put on by USF group 164, held on July 8, 2015 at 7:00p.m. Location of meeting was at 12850 North 50th Street, Chapel Center in Temple Terrace, Tampa, Florida. The group leader was named BoB L. There were 12 participants that evening and several guests, a room full. I along with two other students were introduced to the group as student nurses, and we were welcomed with open arms. The group was very inviting and warm. People seemed happy, friendly and in good spirits

not addicted to those substances. Therefore, I feel that this class gave me the motivation to go to a 12-step meeting and explore the reality of people who are dealing with addiction and fighting every day to have a healthier life. I could not imagine how it was going to be, although I did not want to make people feel uncomfortable with my presence. The place where I decided to go for my 12-step meeting assignment is called Harmony Room and is located at 2215 South West 67th Avenue, Miami, FL. I went

I went to a traditional 12 step AA meeting. It was a long timers group, which had individuals who have been attending AA for a while now and those who have been sober for at least 10 years or more. It was at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, located in Johnstown, Pa. The meeting was from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. They started off the meeting by reading the preamble. The preamble, which was found and quoted from the District 41- Alcoholics Anonymous, Johnstown, Pa website (2015), “Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship

For posterity’s sake, I tried to recall my first 12-step meeting and have concluded that it was most likely the year 1996, it was cold in the little town of Altoona. The clubhouse was strange, dark, smelled of coffee, and full of smoke there, the people were all so different, but all of them seemed to know some secret code, plus they seemed to talk as if reading bumper-stickers. As I “kept coming back,” I began to feel more comfortable, understand what was going on, and want what these people had

to drug and alcohol addictions, sex addiction, eating disorders, and people who have been sexually abused, that was established in the early 1990 by Pastors John Baker and Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, in a counteraction to teachings of twelve-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous Its creators thought that Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous definition and allusion of God as a "higher power" was very ambiguous, in addition they wanted a more Scriptural

performance of The 39 Steps. The 39 Steps was originally a book by John Buchan set before the First World War, the book was later adapted into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was a serious book and film following a bachelor called Richard Hannay who meets a mysterious German woman at a play, the women begs him to take her home with him and later reveals she is a spy trying to discover the truth about an organisation trying to steal British defence plans and something called the 39 steps. Later the women