My name is Paul, and I’m an alcoholic. I’ve said that hundreds of times behind closed doors — some in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but mostly in secular recovery groups. Truth be told, I haven’t ...

These are some reflections given to me by recovering alcoholics as they recounted their efforts to abstain from alcohol. The decision to get help. "Cancer is a picnic compared to alcoholism. Cancer ...

Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people stop drinking. Drawing on his long friendship with Barry Humphries and the experience of Anthony Hopkins, Ross Fitzgerald reflects on sobriety, ...

Step two of Alcoholics Anonymous rescued people entering recovery from the demoralizing hopelessness of step one’s admission of powerlessness over alcohol and other drugs’ destructive effects, but the ...

AA preaches self-transformation not by medicine but “through an inventory of your psyche.” ...