Twelve Steps
You need to be religious to benefit from the 12 Steps.
True or False
False. This is a spiritual program not a religious program.
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and ___________________________________________.
and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
How many sections are in the Big Book?
4
What is "The number one offender?"
Relapse
Addiction is what kind of disease?
A spiritual disease.
Which step is the first step to include talk of a higher power?
Step 2
What do we think is the root of our troubles?
pg. 62
Selfish and self centeredness ("we THINK" - gotta love Bill W. for that one).
What is the name of the doctor that wrote The Doctor’s Opinion?
William D. Silkworth, MD
"Our primary purpose is to stay sober and _________________________________________....
...help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety."
Define compulsion.
We use drugs/alcohol regardless of the consequences.
How many of the 12 Steps of AA have the word alcohol or alcoholic in them?
2
What does H.O.W. stand for?
Fill in the blank:
"Acceptance is__________.
the answer to all my problems today."
The "12 & 12" refers to which text?
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
What does R.I.D. stand for?
Restless, Irritable, Discontent.
What is the only requirement for membership of AA?
The only requirement for AA membership is a DESIRE to stop drinking.
The alcoholic has a daily reprieve from drinking contingent upon what?
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
The beginning of the Big Book has not been changed since 1939, but exactly how many pages does that consist of?
164
What does H.A.L.T. stand for?
Hungry, Anger, Lonely, Tired
Why can't I drink like a normal person?
The phenomenon of craving,
Write out the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The first meeting between Bill W and Dr. Bob happened in what year and what City/State?
1935 Akron, Ohio
According to the physician who wrote the "Doctor's Opinion" in the Big Book, "the phenomenon of ____________ is limited to chronic alcoholics, and never occurs in the average temperate drinker."
Craving
How did the Serenity Prayer come to be widely used in the Twelve Step programs?
It was seen in an obituary and brought to Bill W's attention by a member named Jack.
List the things that fall under the Mind (Mental) part of the Model of Addiction.
Obsession - a persistent thought or reoccuring thought that is stronger than and does no respond to reason.
-strange mental blank spots, peculiar metal twist, insanity,
Progressive
Lack of Choice