Observation On Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

The group that this writer attended this week was an Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A) open group that consisted of thirty-two individuals. The date of the meeting was on Tuesday, December 1, 2015. The group started out with one facilitator opening the meeting up. He read the serenity prayer and covered the 12 steps related to the premise of A.A. This took no more than the first five minutes of the meeting. One of the members then took the floor and spoke as the featured speaker talking mostly about how his life has been turned around since joining A.A. and that life couldn’t be better.

Additionally, many of the members attend other NA or AA meetings and reported feeling closer to those other groups. “I honestly don’t want to come back here, Andy is a dick, these women don’t have someone to take care of their kids, and since when did we decided we don’t allow kids. He isn’t the leader, this is a group, we all choose together all he cares is about himself” Steve spat with contempt. If we hadn’t been there for that meeting, we would have believed that the group was entirely loving, intimate and attached.

It is a very good option for someone who has a true desire to end their addiction behavior, but has no real support system. They may have the support of their family and a few friends, but they no one who shares in their story, or who knows how it feels to want to drink or do drugs when the stress of life gets to be too much. Twelve-step programs present several ethical and legal issues that present challenges to the treatment. These self help groups are anonymous and are not suppose to be discussed outside of the group setting, discussing things outside the group can present privacy issues; therefore, members must pledge secrecy to what is discussed during AA meetings (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2012). Many people participate in AA because they feel at liberty to openly speak about their life as a substance abuser and their road to recovery.

The NA meeting had a guest speaker named Adam, the most surprising thing about meeting were candor and humor evoked by the speaker. Adam acknowledged that he has been addicted to drugs for seventeen years, and this behavior started when he was in the 7th grade. Adam was genuinely outspoken and humorously shared being in and out of treatment facilities over 28 times costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The group really identified with the speakers story, and this was exhibited by laughter and comments from the crowd. Actually, I didn’t have any perceived notions about attend NA meeting, my only contention was to better understand this community.

In 1983, NA created its first textbook which also enhanced the rapid growth so much so that at the end of the year, the organization has spread to over a dozen countries attaining 2, 966 meetings worldwide. Today, NA is considered to be a well-established international organization that is multilingual, and a multicultural fellowship that attains more than 63,000 weekly meetings in 132 countries (“Information about NA”, 2014). The NA program attains a white booklet that describes the program’s anonymous way. The white booklet explains to members that all drug addicts, regardless of certain types of drugs or a combination of drugs, is accepted in this program. They adapt to the AA’s first step of the disease model but other than using the world alcohol they replace it with addiction.

Drug and alcohol treatment centers offering detoxification services provide their clients with the care and comfort they require during this difficult phase of the recovery

With all the pressure to recognize that they have a substance abuse problem, they choose detox and treatment, people with drugs or alcohol know that rehabilitation is just a stone. But many have had the opportunity to regain their normal lives and get rid of the available treatment options. Money, mindset, and obligations are all things that make people feel the way to take action to see what options they can use. Words such as ambulatory hospital patients and clinics are often mentioned in brochures and rehabilitation facilities websites, but for many, these are just words. The meaning behind them is often not included or clear, which makes the decision process a lack of direction.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. The first chapter of The Big Book tells how Bill Wilson was introduced to the concept of using a faith based, group support program to provide the mental and emotional support needed to manage Alcohol Addiction. The main purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety. The program is unique in that each chapter is self funded, develops their own meeting format. I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on Thursday, October 6th at 8 p.m.

People who are drug addicted can benefit greatly from spending time at a drug treatment center. The center can be just what they need to overcome their addiction and live a happier life without drugs. If you are addicted to drugs, treatment is likely a necessity as it can be hard to get off of drugs without the right treatment. What does it have to offer an addicted individual?

I’ll be honest, I was a bit skeptical of going to this meeting. I was nervous, anxious, and worried what they might think or ask. At the same time though, I was also excited. I was excited because I wanted to learn more about Alcohol Anonymous. Walking into a church where I knew no one and knew what these people struggle with was a bit eye opening.

While it is true that there are there are other types of programs, and there are no guarantees that any program works for everyone, it is also true that 12-step fellowship programs do have a history of working for many people. Twelve-step programs oftentimes work when people want to stop drinking alcohol, using drugs and taking other harmful substances because they give people who want to stay sober an readily available support group and a set of tools that can help them create new habits, a new lifestyle, and a new way to think and

In my experience of observing Alcoholics Anonymous group, it was a great experience. In my experience, I notice a lot of things in the Alcoholic Anonymous group. The first thing I notice while observing the group session is they have Alcoholics Anonymous bible that read a section every session. They read the same passage that discuss that how important it is to keep all information that is said in the group confidential. They were vey clear with that information.

People were smiling as they announced their accomplishments. There were some sad moments when someone would share how they got addicted or the bad things that happened in their life because of alcohol. The majority of the time, though, was very positive. This meeting was also more of a support group than a religious group. Although I do not have any sort of addiction, I believe that if I did, a twelve step program would be effective.

My client did not want to attend a group so I started doing it with him in individual session. He was really good at first with keeping his appointments, but as his visitation hearing came closer, he stopped coming to counseling. His father was an attorney and was helping him with his case. I thought he was doing really well. He was attending college, going to Alcoholics Anonymous several times a week, and hanging out with sober friends.

It allows members of the centre to develop a strong bond with each other that will be necessary for them to recovery from substance abuse. Not only will they aid and