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Service Material from the General Service Office

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become 

unmanageable. 

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to 

sanity. 

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we 

understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature 

of our wrongs. 

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make 

amends to them all. 

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do 

so would injure them or others. 

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly 

admitted it. 

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with 

God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us 

and the power to carry that out. 

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to 

carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our 

affairs. 

Copyright  1952, 1953, 1981 by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing 

(now known as Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.) 

All rights reserved.

Rev. 6/14 SM F-121

No. 12-2400, viewed 8/23/2015

Appeal: 12-2400 Doc: 44-1 Filed: 02/04/2014 Pg: 1 of 1