Eighty years ago, two strangers with alcohol addictions talked on the phone and found support in each other. This was the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous, which today has more than two million ...

It was time for the coveted sobriety chips, so Grace snapped on a pair of plastic gloves and kept a bit of distance as she doled out medallions to members who had gone 30, 60 and 90 days without a ...

Alcoholics Anonymous is, by far, the largest and most venerable addiction recovery group in the world. Founded nearly 80 years ago, AA now boasts 2.1 million worldwide members, many of whom attribute ...

EVERYONE should try doing a 12-Step Program. Not just alcoholics, gamblers, drug addicts and people addicted to sex; everyone. I guarantee the world would be a better place as a result. More people ...

The original Alcoholics Anonymous manuscript – complete with the famed 12 Steps on how to stop tippling the booze – shows the group’s founder struggling with the wording when describing the need for a ...

NEW YORK (AP) – In 1939, about 5,000 copies of a book offering hopeless drunks a spiritual path to recovery through 12 steps was released by a fledgling fellowship of alcoholics. They called it ...

“Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is giving Alcoholics Anonymous a special shoutout for helping him turn his life around ahead of his first child’s birth. He also added that ...