Straight Up No Chaser

How do we reach the Third Step decision, and what actions are associated with our decision to turn our will and our life over to God?

Today it is necessary to survive the fellowship in order to recover. There are many secular solutions to alcoholism and addiction offered in the rooms of recovery that fail to address the spiritual nature of the problem.

We came! We came to. We came to believe. A WILLINGNESS to believe a power greater than human power could restore us to sanity is the only requirement of the Second Step.

Alcoholism is often spoken of as a disease. In truth it is a mental illness rooted in a spiritual malady. The 12 Steps are a program of spiritual psychotherapy that restores the alcoholic to sanity.

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholic Anonymous have been proven to work for over 80 years with a success rate of 67 percent or better. Nothing has been proven to work better than the Steps. Yet, treatment centers have formulated their own message and alcoholics and addicts who adopt it fail mightily. By their own admission only 1 out of 13 who go to treatment find success.

A description of addiction and the spiritual solution offered by Alcoholics Anonymous that works for addicts of all type!