12-Step Programs
This step in the 12-step program encourages admitting powerlessness over addiction.
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol or addiction
This Oscar-winning "Iron Man" actor has been open about his long journey in recovery from alcohol addiction
Who founded Alcoholics Anonymous?
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith
This step emphasizes turning to a Higher Power for help.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
This actress and one time Lindsay Lohan Sponsor has spoken openly about recovery after cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
Jamie Lee Curtis
False: Recovery is an ongoing process that involves continuous learning, growth, and change. It doesn’t happen all at once; it's a journey.
True or False: Recovery is a one-time event.
This step involves making a list of people we have harmed and becoming willing to make amends
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
This Academy Award-winning actor has been candid about recovering from alcohol addiction outside of the Gotham City.
Ben Affleck
False: Addiction is a medical condition, not a moral failing. It is influenced by genetic, psychological, and environmental factors, not a lack of willpower or moral character.
True or False: Addiction is a moral failing or sign of weakness.
Name 4 of the 12-step principles
This Friends star struggled with prescription drug addiction and later became an advocate for recovery.
Matthew Perry
This British Prime Minister openly struggled with depression, which he called his "black dog."
Winston Churchill
Name the steps that involves taking a moral inventory of oneself and continuing to take a moral inventory of oneself
Step 4: Making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong properly admitted it
This former Disney star survived a near-fatal overdose in 2018 and speaks openly about relapse and recovery.
Demi Lovato
This civil rights leader struggled with depression throughout much of his adult life.
Martin Luther King Jr.