Definitions for Alcoholics Anonymous
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1. Alcoholics Anonymous, AAnoun

   an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism

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1. Alcoholics Anonymousnoun

   A self-supporting organization of alcoholic people, whose sole purpose is to provide mutual aid to obtain and maintain sobriety and to help others recover from the disease of alcoholism.

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1. Alcoholics Anonymous

   Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual aid fellowship of alcoholics dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program. Following its Twelve Traditions, AA is non-professional and non-denominational, as well as apolitical and unaffiliated. In 2020 AA estimated its worldwide membership to be over two million with 75% of those in the U.S. and Canada.Regarding its effectiveness, a 2020 scientific review saw clinical interventions encouraging increased AA participation resulting in higher abstinence rates over other clinical interventions while probably reducing health costs. While AA has no opinion on the disease model of alcoholism—or on any medical matter, the large role many members took in making it popular has caused it to be associated with AA.AA dates its start to 1935 with Bill Wilson (Bill W) first commiserating alcoholic to alcoholic with Bob Smith (Dr. Bob) who, along with Wilson, was active in AA's immediate precursor the Christian revivalist Oxford Group. Within the Oxford Group Wilson and Smith, joined by other alcoholics, supported each other in meetings and individually until forming a fellowship of alcoholics only. In 1939 they published Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism. Known as the Big Book and the source of AA’s name, it contains AA's Twelve Step recovery program. Subsequent editions included the Twelve Traditions, first adopted in 1950, to formalize and unify the fellowship as a benign anarchy. The Twelve Steps are presented as a suggested self-improvement program resulting in a spiritual awakening after an alcoholic has conceded powerlessness over alcohol and acknowledged its damage, as well as having listed and strived to correct personal failings and by making amends for misdeeds. The Steps suggest helping other alcoholics through the Steps, which, though not explicitly prescribed, is often done by sponsoring other alcoholics. Following the will of God—"as we understood Him"— is urged by the Steps, but differing spiritual practices and persuasions, as well as non-theist members, are accepted and accommodated.The Twelve Traditions are AA's guidelines for members, groups and its non-governing upper echelons. Besides making a desire to stop drinking the only membership requirement, the Traditions advise against dogma, hierarchies and involvement in public controversies so recovery from alcoholism remains AA’s primary purpose. Without threat of retribution or means of enforcement the Traditions urge members to remain anonymous in public media. They also wish that members or groups to not use AA to gain wealth, property or prestige. The Traditions establish AA groups as autonomous, self-supporting through members’ voluntary contributions while rejecting outside contributions, and, as with all of AA, barred from representing AA as affiliated with or supporting of other organizations or causes.With AA's permission, fellowships such as Narcotics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous have adopted and adapted the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions to their addiction recovery programs.

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1. Alcoholics Anonymous

   Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. AA states that its "primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety". With other early members Wilson and Smith developed AA's Twelve Step program of spiritual and character development. AA's Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help AA stabilize and grow. The Traditions recommend that members and groups remain anonymous in public media, altruistically help other alcoholics, including all who wish to stop drinking, and do not affiliate AA with any other organization. The Traditions also recommend that AA members acting on behalf of the fellowship steer clear of dogma, governing hierarchies and involvement in public issues. Subsequent fellowships such as Narcotics Anonymous have adopted and adapted the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions to their respective primary purposes. AA has no opinion on the medical nature of alcoholism; nonetheless AA is regarded, by many, as a proponent and popularizer of the disease theory of alcoholism. The American Psychiatric Association has recommended sustained treatment in conjunction with AA's program, or similar community resources, for chronic alcoholics unresponsive to brief treatment. AA's data show that 74% drop out of AA in the first year, but its program is credited with helping many alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety.

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1. Alcoholics Anonymous

   An organization of self-proclaimed alcoholics who meet frequently to reinforce their practice of abstinence.

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How to pronounce Alcoholics Anonymous?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Alcoholics Anonymous in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Alcoholics Anonymous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Alcoholics Anonymous in a Sentence

1. Ramesh Tawadkar:

   We will make them (LGBT youth) normal. We will have a center for them. Like Alcoholics Anonymous centers, we will have centers. We will train them and give them medicines too, as in the case of other target groups such as juvenile offenders, drug-afflicted youth, marginalized or migrant youth, geographically disadvantaged youth, a detailed survey would be carried out of the LGBT community so that their problems could be specifically addressed.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Alcoholics Anonymous
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Alcoholics Anonymous