Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a worldwide mutual aid The group process contains the secret of collective life, it is the key to democracy, it is the master lesson for every individual to learn, it is our chief hope for the political, the social, the international life of the future society[1] describing itself as a fellowship of men and women with a desire to stop drinking alcohol An alcoholic beverage is a drink that contains ethanol . Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits and maintain sobriety In neuro-linguistic programming, sobriety is the state of not acting out in an addiction while helping others to do so through abstinence, practicing the Twelve Steps A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred, a lifelong program of character development.[2][3] The first of many twelve-step programs A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred, AA was started by white White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white also functions as a color terminology for race, often referring narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe, middle class The middle class are any class in the middle of a social schema. In Weberian socio-economic terms they are the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socioeconomically between the working class and upper class. In Marxist terms, middle class commonly refers to either the bourgeoisie before or during capitalism[citation needed], or Americans, but its intentionally broad philosophy has aided AA in spreading "across diverse cultures holding different beliefs and values." Moreover, by avoiding affiliation with outside political and social groups or having opinions on "outside issues", AA has been successfully introduced to geopolitical areas otherwise resistant to grassroots A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures. Grassroots movements are often at the local level, as many movements.[4] Although AA has high attrition rates,[5] its program can help alcoholics maintain sobriety.[6]
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