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The Twelve
Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Our common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate
authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in
our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire
to stop drinking.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters
affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose-to carry its
message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
- An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend
the A.A. name to any related facility or outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property and
prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
- Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever
nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ
special workers.
- A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible
to those they serve.
- Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into
public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our
traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities.
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Reprinted from: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Big Book)
(4th Edition)
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING, INC.
NEW YORK CITY
1955
(Appendices I, The A.A. Tradition), with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc. |
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