alcoholic anonymous

when founded: 1935
where: akron, ohio
who: bill wilson, a NY stockbroker
: dr. bob smith, an Akron surgeon
method:
> the 12-step recovery program from chemical dependency
> major steps
-- admitting you are powerless over alcohol --
that your life has become unmanageable
-- believing that a power greater than yourself
could restore you to sanity
-- making a list of all persons you have harmed, &
-- becoming willing to make amends to them all.

"AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word.
it is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into
spiritual progress."
- bill wison, co-founder of AA

source: xpress (2007 may 17), p. 10. "sober celebration."
cf: www.aa.org