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AA's 12 Traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on AA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is one ultimate authority - a loving God as He
may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or
AA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the
alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related
facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige
divery us from our primary purpose.
7. Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside
contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
9. AA, as such ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or
commmittees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name
ought never be drawn into controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding
us to place principles before personalities.
reprinted from(Alcoholics Anonymous, page 564) with Permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
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