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The full title is Life With Hope: A Return to Living Through the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Marijuana Anonymous. The book is available for purchase, and is free on the Marijuana Anonymous app. A New Leaf. A New Leaf is a monthly newsletter published by Marijuana Anonymous. It contains stories and sobriety anniversaries of MA members ...
MA – Marijuana Anonymous. NA – Narcotics Anonymous. N/A – Neurotics Anonymous, for recovery from mental and emotional illness. Nar-Anon, for friends and family members of addicts. NicA – Nicotine Anonymous. OA – Overeaters Anonymous. PA – Pills Anonymous, for recovery from prescription pill addiction.
Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ), founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem." [1] Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders [2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization, [3] after 12-step pioneer ...
Residential drug treatment co-opted the language of Alcoholics Anonymous, using the Big Book not as a spiritual guide but as a mandatory text — contradicting AA’s voluntary essence. AA’s meetings, with their folding chairs and donated coffee, were intended as a judgment-free space for addicts to talk about their problems.
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. [1]
The Twelve Traditions of twelve-step programs provide guidelines for relationships between the twelve-step groups, members, other groups, the global fellowship, and society at large. Questions of finance, public relations, donations, and purpose are addressed in the traditions. They were originally written by Bill Wilson after the founding of ...
One organization wants you to be flying high on Inauguration Day -- whether you voted for Donald Trump or not.
Recovery programs using Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps and twelve traditions either in their original form or by changing only the alcohol-specific references: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Emotions Anonymous (EA) Marijuana Anonymous; Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) GROW