12-Step groups/programmes, xiii, 58–60, 85, 116, 172–173

AA conference-approved literature, 53, 131, 134, 145

AA World Services, Inc., 14, 51, 76

acronymsSee also slogans, 127–128

addiction, 18, 136, 147, 162, 252

Akron AA group, 28, 30–31, 39–40, 44–46, 48, 54–56, 61, 97

Akron City Hospital, 25, 31

Akron, Ohio, 17, 22, 25–28, 30–31, 35, 39–40, 41, 44–46, 48, 54–56, 61, 97

Al-Anon, 8, 56, 73, 98, 164, 166, 169–171

‘alcohol squad’, 24–31, 37–45

Alcoholic Foundation, the, 46, 90

‘alcoholic thinking’, 213, 219

Alcoholics Anonymous, the book. See the Big Book

Alcoholics Anonymous (history)

founder’s meeting, 17, 22–24

origins within Oxford Group, xiii, 17–29

break with the Oxford Group, 37–47, 61–63, 71, 74

Rockefeller, John D., 44–45

writing the Big Book,, 53–57, 60–66

writing the Twelve Steps, 60–66

writing the Twelve Traditions, 87–94

Alcoholics Anonymous (key concepts)

acceptance, 43, 68, 70–74, 77, 83, 93–94, 118, 142–145, 181, 226, 230, 233–237, 245, 253

alcoholism. See alcoholism as a disease/illness under alcoholism

anonymity, 40–44, 50, 98, 123, 148, 150, 162

higher power, 20–21, 28, 34, 55, 64, 70, 75, 88, 94–96, 102–104, 118–120, 180, 192–193, 221, 233–235, 240, 248

hitting (rock) bottom, 7, 10–11, 47, 70, 87, 97, 116, 118, 188, 192–194, 196, 208, 213, 218–222, 235

letting go, 41–43, 56, 120, 234, 240

Twelve Steps, the. See Twelve Steps

Twelve Traditions, the. See Twelve Traditions

serenity prayer, 9, 30, 49, 71–72, 141–142, 151, 238–239

sobriety, xvii, 6, 14, 23, 43–44, 68, 76, 116–119, 153, 203, 239, 249, 252

willingness, 60, 116, 127, 221, 230, 245–250

Alcoholics Anonymous (groups)

Akron. See Akron AA group

New York, 44, 46–47, 54–56, 61, 142