* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( Bill W. and Dr. Bob ) in Akron, Ohio.

AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name.

A regional service center for Alcoholics Anonymous.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

In 1960, Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ), said:

* Bill W. ( Bill Wilson ), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

Non-Communist organizations also have Central Committees, such as the Mennonite Church and Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors ( to war ).

* 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.

* 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

* 1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( founders of Alcoholics Anonymous ) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.

However, she was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband ; she finally joined Alcoholics Anonymous.

Spirituality has played a central role in self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous: "... if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead ...."

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ), the first twelve-step fellowship, was founded on August 11, 1938 ( although some speculate the date as being June 10, 1935 which is the date that Dr. Bob had his last drink ) by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, known to AA members as " Bill W ." and " Dr. Bob ", in Akron, Ohio.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

** The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.

** Bill W. ( William Griffith Wilson ), co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous ( b. 1895 )

* June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

Jung recommended spirituality as a cure for alcoholism and he is considered to have had an indirect role in establishing Alcoholics Anonymous.

One of the alcoholics he brought into the Oxford Group was Ebby Thacher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of Bill Wilson, later co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ).

* Sobriety information website and forum for Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous

The influence of Jung thus indirectly found its way into the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the original twelve-step program, and from there into the whole twelve-step recovery movement, although AA as a whole is not Jungian and Jung had no role in the formation of that approach or the twelve steps.

He is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and has written some blog entries on the subject.

Rational Recovery and Rational Recovery Systems, Inc. is a commercial vendor of material related to counseling, guidance, and direct instruction for addiction designed as a direct counterpoint to Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) and twelve-step programs.

The clinic, which works to the twelve-step programme philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous is based near Liphook in Hampshire and includes Kate Hoey, Alex Rae and Elton John as patrons, and is supported by the Professional Footballers ' Association.

The All-American Soapbox Derby, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, National Hamburger Festival, Founders Day ( Alcoholics Anonymous ), and Road Runner Akron Marathon are annually hosted by the city which is a venue for some events of the 2014 Gay Games.

* June 7 – Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.

The prayer is frequently used by Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses it in a slightly different form.

" She is an advocate of Alcoholics Anonymous's 12-step program.

Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ) describes itself as a " fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem " following the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, and it is the second-largest 12-step organization.

Alcoholics Anonymous " is a program for alcoholics who seek freedom from alcohol " but does refer to " some AA members who have misused drugs ... in such a manner as to become a threat to the achievement and maintenance of sobriety " and mentions that drugs can " create a dependence just as devastating as dependence on alcohol ".

Woodall has freely admitted that she is a recovering alcoholic, having begun drinking heavily at age sixteen, but has been teetotal since she was twenty-six and still attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

# Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole.

We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal ; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies ; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is unwise.

( i. e., Bill Wilson ), excerpts of which can be found in Pass It On, published by Alcoholics Anonymous.

" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

" Thus for example " smoking increases mortality risk by a factor of just 1. 6, while social isolation does so by a factor of 2. 0 ... suggest an added value to self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous as surrogate communities.

Although the two bonded over their shared alcoholism, Mike has coped with his own addictions by joining Alcoholics Anonymous and by becoming a compulsive gambler ; in between work on Coven, Mike goes to the gas station to buy lottery tickets, sometimes accompanied by his AA sponsor, who then drives them both to Gamblers ' Anonymous meetings.

Nile Rodgers gave a eulogy, while a member of the Nightcrawlers read chapters five and eleven from The Big Book, a self-help book by Alcoholics Anonymous.

In 1954 he was appointed assistant master at Epuni School, Lower Hutt and during that time joined Alcoholics Anonymous, being deeply inspired by its principles.

The concept of hypersexuality as an addiction was started in the 1970s by former members of Alcoholics Anonymous who believed that their sexual behaviors meant the same thing as their alcohol use.

They were originally written by Bill Wilson after the founding of the first twelve-step group, Alcoholics Anonymous.