From the brochure" This is AA "
About us AA"Introductory leaflet describing the kind of people are the AA, and what they have learned about alcoholism. For anyone who might think you have a problem with alcohol." Full version AA website.
We are men and women who have come to understand and admit that we can not handle alcohol. We realize that we have to live without the drink, if we are to avoid disaster for ourselves and for the people closest to us.
We are part of an international brotherhood of informal local groups in thousands of communities, and currently has members in 180 countries. We have one overriding goal: to stay sober and help others who turn to us to achieve sobriety.
We are not reformers, and are not affiliated with any group, cause or religious denomination. We have no desire to make the whole world abstemios. No reclutamos nuevos miembros, aunque siempre les damos la bienvenida. No imponemos nuestra experiencia con la bebida a otros, pero la compartimos cuando se nos pide.
Entre nuestros miembros se pueden encontrar hombres y mujeres de todas las edades y de diversa procedencia social, económica y cultural. Algunos de nosotros bebimos durante muchos años antes de darnos cuenta de que no podíamos controlar el alcohol. Otros tuvimos la suerte de reconocer ya en nuestra juventud o en las primeras etapas de nuestras carreras de bebedores que la bebida había llegado a ser algo inmanejable.
Las consecuencias de nuestra forma alcohólica de beber también han sido muy variadas. Unos cuantos de nosotros nos habíamos convertido vagrants lost before turning to AA for help. Some had lost our families, our property and our dignity. We lived on the streets of the slums of many cities. Some were hospitalized and jailed countless times. "We had committed serious offenses against society, our families, our employers, and against ourselves.
Others of us have never been hospitalized or incarcerated. Neither had lost our families and our jobs because of drinking. However, we finally got to realize that alcohol was making us difficult to live a normal life. When we discovered that we could live without alcohol, we also seek help through AA in our community are members of all major world religions, and many religious leaders have supported our development. And there are even some atheists and agnostics among us. To become a member does not require any belief or adherence to a formal creed.
We are united by our common problem: alcohol. Coming together, talking to each other, helping other alcoholics, together, we can somehow stay sober and lose the obsession to drink that in other times, it was the dominant force in our lives.
We do not have the only solution to the problem of alcoholism. We know that the AA program gives results and we have seen that also gives all learners, almost without exception, who sincerely want to stop drinking.
Through AA, we have learned some things about alcoholism and about ourselves. We strive to keep these things fresh in mind, they seem to be the key to sobriety. For us, sobriety should always come first.
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