We interviewed two dozen AA members for an inside look at the opportunities and challenges of an unprecedented transition from in-person to online meetings because of COVID-19.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon and other 12-step groups, many of which are locked out of their regular meeting sites because of the coronavirus pandemic, are Zooming along. Zoom, an online meeting ...

Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are often studied in 12-step meetings of AA. The AA Way of Life was written by AA co-founder Bill W. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Sean Clancy) ...

For people in Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs, going to meetings and staying in community is critical. As officials plead for everyone to practice 'social distancing' many in the ...

Columbian advice columnist Annie Lane often recommends AA or Al-Anon (those bothered by someone else’s drinking) to go to those 12-step meetings.

“AA can’t totally close its doors,” says Grace, a 49-year-old yoga teacher, who asked to be identified by her middle name to respect the group’s anonymity pledge. “We don’t know when ...

The analysis found that AA and AA-connected 12-step programs had 20% improved abstinence rates over a period of 12 months compared to other therapies. That effect remained constant at both 24 and ...

He said the longest and strongest recoveries among alcoholics occur because of AA’s 12-step programme. He explained that if an alcoholic simply stops drinking, they find that nothing changes ...

The AA’s 12-step method also refers to a “Power greater than ourselves” that “could restore us to sanity.” Often meeting in church basements, the organization is sometimes mistaken for ...