“Summary:
A recent national survey
indicates what is involved in "being a member" of
Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and provides data which should help
medical practitioners to make better informed judgements about
whether to recommend A.A. to particular alcoholic patients. The
survey shows that to be successful in A.A. entails more than just
attending the meetings. Involvement in other activities - reading the
literature, office-holding, twelfth-stepping, sponsorship, and
attending formal functions - is routine for the great majority of
current members. Members also make new friends in A.A. who replace
rather than augment the circle of old ones and who form the basis for
a new set of relationships outside the fellowship. These enable the
A.A. programme to be carried beyond the meeting into the member's
everyday life and facilitate a continuity of concern which the caring
professions cannot provide.”
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