Alcoholic anonymous is a companionship society comprised of women, as well as men, who desire to allocate to others their hope, strength and experience. Sharing with those who may be able to get to the bottom of their general recurring problems and therefore be an aid to those who wish to recover from alcoholism is considered one of the most important beliefs of the alcoholic anonymous members.

In general, the requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Being self-supporting through their individual assistances, which means they are never going to charge neither cost nor contribution on membership of alcoholic anonymous.

Alcoholic anonymous doesn’t ever ally with any organization nor institution, nor any denomination, political, or sect. They also never wanted to be involved in the controversy, because they do not support nor oppose any causes. They have a principal objective that is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to enable them to get sobriety.

One of the basic systems of belief of alcholics anonymous is that since they’re all alcoholics, thus they know what the disease feels like and therefore have a really special comprehension of the troubles related with alcoholism.

The members recognize that they’re alcoholics, despite the many years of being sober, because they never found a person can get well from being an alcoholic.

The essential thing is the fact that alcoholic anonymous members don’t say that they swear never to drink, but instead they think that alcoholism is able to be treated one day of the week at a time. It is always only for today, never even going as far as tomorrow, it is only for today.

Therefore, when the physical part of keeping alcohol out of the physical being, also the emotional being should be helped. To help this process, members consider that there are “twelve steps” to achieve the condition of alcoholism recovery.

Whenever alcoholic anonymous members meet, they provide actions and suggestions in the form of ideas in how to adhere or go through the twelve steps.

Alcoholics anonymous meetings happen in over 180 different countries. In their open meetings, which are open to alcoholics and non-alcoholics alike, they relate to each other the manner in which they drank, how they made their discovery of alcoholic anonymous, and thus how helpful that program was for them. Their closed meetings are attended by alcoholics only, so that intense personal problems may be discussed freely among them.