Shaniqua McIntosh Jan 2‚ 2012 Alcoholics Anonymous Alateen/al-anon What is Alcoholics Anonymous? Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international movement created to help alcoholics to recover and live better‚ alcohol free lives. It was found by Bill Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith in 1935. Robert Holbrook Smith was a doctor who struggled with an alcohol problem since his teens that tried unsuccessfully for many years to get rid of. His alcoholism had a progressing negative impact on
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Alcoholics Anonymous Paper Jessica M. Ray Grand Canyon University Introduction to Addictions and Substance Use Disorders October 29‚ 2014 Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous‚ commonly referred to as AA‚ is one of the most recognized treatment groups for alcoholic addiction (Capuzzi & Stauffer‚ 2012). Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and Bill Wilson founded AA on June 10‚ 1935. Both of these men suffered from alcoholism and founded the group with the commitment to stop drinking and helping others
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did. 2. Philosophy Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. The primary purpose of AA is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety. Although AA was founded on Christian principles and by white men‚ the organization has evolved to be multicultural. AA doesn’t keep a list of members ’ names‚ but estimates that it has 2 million members who come from all backgrounds. The philosophy behind Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcoholism is a disease
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Distillation of Alcoholic Beverages Abstract We used a Quickfit Set Up in order to perform a Simple Distillation procedure. We used 15mL of The Bar as our distillate. We separated and calculated the alcohol content of the said beverage by the distillation process. Introduction Alcoholic beverages are undeniably part of our culture for a long time already. It has many purposes‚ like‚ medical‚ hygienic‚ recreational. But‚ like everything else‚ if taken excessively‚ that is a different story
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Name: Renee Ingram Date: 2/13/13 School: LAMP Facilitator: Monica McCord 4.2 Warning: Alcohol is a Dangerous Chemical Work File Review Note taking is important for this lesson. Read the questions on the left side of the page very carefully and then record meaningful facts and ideas in the main larger‚ right-hand column. Be sure to read each stated web site very carefully. Your test will come directly from the notes. This method for taking notes is called “Cornell Note Taking.”
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Narcotics Anonymous Meeting Group Structure: Type of group: This meeting was a “Narcotics Anonymous Open Sharing Meeting”. This component‚ where anyone attending had the opportunity to share. There was no direct feedback from the other participants during the “share”‚ thus only one person spoke at any given time during that portion of the meeting. Organizational affiliation: Narcotics Anonymous as a group has no affiliation outside of Narcotics Anonymous. As a group they have no
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idea of time well spend. There are hundreds of studies that had shown‚ alcohol have destructive short term and long term effects yet some people drink excessively without minding any of these harmful effects. By the way‚ what is AA meeting? “Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience‚ strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.” With my notebook and a pen I healded to the meeting with
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was also an alcoholic‚ but he was not an everyday drinker. Maurine stated that she believe that her father being an alcoholic had caused a lot of problems in her later years. She caused a lot of problems for herself that caused her daughter to stop speaking to her for five years. She is a social worker and has been ever since she graduated college. However‚ her drinking problem had gotten so bad that one day she was in the hospital and had to be visited by a social
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has little or no ill effects either for the user or those around them. But the misuse of what has become one of the world’s most dangerous drugs takes a devastating toll on both the drinker and on society as a whole. Most agree that the occasional alcoholic drink never hurt anyone. The real danger lies in binge drinking and the development of a tolerance to alcohol‚ which causes the drinker to consume every greater quantities of booze in a bid to regain that original but elusive feeling of well being
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This essay is a reflection on my observation of how a group interacts with each other. The 12-step meeting I attended was Overeater’s Anonymous (OA). OA uses the same Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions as Alcoholics Anonymous‚ the words are changed from “alcoholic” to “compulsive overeater”. The meeting I went to had seven people in attendance even with this small of a group it was definitely a diverse group. All seven attendees were women whose ages ranged from a young college student to an
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