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Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization of voluntary which was created in 1935 to help alcoholics to practice to get sobriety. It’s the Mr. Bill Wilson’s idea; a onetime financier that is career in Finance was devastated by alcoholism.
While other patients who suffer from acute alcohol poisoning effects attend a hospital, Bill Wilson experienced what he called a spiritual experience and he could heal himself in his new receipt and belief in God.
After leaving hospital he teamed up with Doctor Bob Smith and together they went about their joint vocation of helping and curing alcoholics. The venture was hugely successful and in 1939 Bill Wilson wrote a book entitled Alcoholics Anonymous which launched the organization we know today.
Today, there are over 106,000 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting groups and the organization has spread across the world. The only requirements to join AA are that you must be a practicing alcoholic who wants to quit drinking. There are no fees or subscriptions so the foundation gathers its finances from private donations.
The concept of treating alcoholism like a disease was the brainchild of Dr William Silkworth who was the physician who treated Bob Wilson in the New York hospital where here underwent his spiritual experience that put him on the path to creating Alcoholics Anonymous.
As alcoholic anonymous grew during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and today the 12 basic principles were grown that are the backbone of the organization. The first 12 principles were:
• Admitting their lives have been ruled by alcoholism
• Believing God could cure alcoholism
• Putting themselves in hands of God
• Honest self evaluation
• Self confession of wrongs enacted
• Preparedness for God to get rid of the bad characteristics
• Asking that God get rid of these bad characteristics
• Making list people they had harmed as well as committing to restore wrongs done
• In fact, making any possible change
• Continuous self evaluation and admission of any continuing faults
• Vowing to try to understand God and his plans for recovering alcoholics
• Committing to assist other practicing alcoholics
Alcoholics Anonymous had a basic foundation in the belief of God, it appears from the original mission statements or principles, but the companionship has increased over the passage of several years, the principles have to be more and more general so as not to estrange or make themselves indefensible to alcoholics that badly need and want assistance, but saw religion as an obstacle to obtaining the assistance.