Step Work makes the dream work
This step, is also known as the ONLY step that one needs to complete fully.
What is step 1.
extra point: "we admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives have become unmanageable."
What was the date of Dr. Bob's last drink?
June 10th, 1935 ( also considered to be the founding date of AA).
This "friends" star is a friend of Bill W's as well. In 2006 he went into treatment for alcohol and prescription pain killers and has since been in long term recovery.
Matthew Perry
What is alcohol
4 out of 5 heroin users became addicted to this specific pharmaceutical prior to switching to heroin.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
a) What is the #1 offender of all alcoholics/addicts?
b)What step addresses this offender?
b) The 4th step
True or False:
The AA Big Book was published before AA meetings became common.
FALSE: The first addition (1939) preceded the first meetings held in Akron and NYC four years earlier.
Keith Urban
This neurotransmitter is responsible for our sense of pleasure or reward.
Dopamine
What is the main reason drug over doses/deaths have tripled since 1990?
The criminal misinformation of Oxycontin by Purdue pharma.
This step is considered to be a daily step, AND the only step which we can take out of chronological order when doing step work.
11th step
"Sought through prayer and mediation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will and the power to carrying it out."
AA's was born in 1935. What cousin program was born in 1982?
Cocaine Anonymous
(NA was born in 1953)
"I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open." This comedian and actor stated when commenting on his own path to recovery.
Robin Williams
I'm an amphetamine that children, adults and the elderly consume daily.
methylxanthine AKA: caffeine
33% of all addicts and alcoholics will...
recover, die, or end up in institutions.
The 9th: "Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
-Bill W and Marty Mann are credited with establishing the worlds FIRST 12 step based rehab in the world?
True.
Ironically, this recovering alcoholic/addict played in the movie 'The Hangover.'
Bradley Cooper
I'm found in bagels, gardens, floral arrangements and class A felonies. What plant and/or substance am I?
The poppy/opium
This group boasts 115,326 groups in 175 different countries, with more than two million members...
AA! No excuse to feel alone :)
co-dependents and distracted step-takers find themselves stumbling over this 'unofficial' step.
13th Step: 'Hook up with ol'timers where ever possible, except when to do so injures them or others."
The Oxford Group
Their standard of morality was the Four Absolutes—a summary of the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount:
'Rosanne' co-star, was once asked on Howard Stern: how did you change your life? To which he responded, "I got sober through AA.
John Goodman
I'm a pesticide historically, but I'm used as both a stimulant and anti-anxiety throughout the western world.
Nicotine.
This family, made 35 billion dollars by single handedly creating the opiate epidemic.
The Sackler Family (currently under criminal prosecution).