Al-Anon

Al-Anon/Alateen, known as Al-Anon Family Groups, is an international “fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope in order to solve their common problems.”

National 12 step meetings and Anonymous Groups is a growing repository of meeting data for all well-known established 12 step groups. From coast-to-coast in the USA, this is a growing and free resource to update meetings for all anonymous 12 step groups. The purpose is simple. Provide necessary logistics via maps, precisely the location of a community of people seeking recovery in a private setting. Often times, there isn’t one resource that compiles the meeting locations for all groups, thereby making attendance quite difficult and threatening to one’s recovery. We hope that with your participation, we collectively are able to achieve this goal.

12 Step National Meetings is operated by Sober Group, whose focus, passion, and reason for being resides in our commitment to help addiction treatment and sober living entities grow and thrive in the digital world. Our job is to create relevant and lasting connections between treatment professionals and the clients who seek them.

Al-Anon’s 12 Concepts of Service – Al-Anon’s 12 Concepts of Service The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are guides for personal growth and group unity. The Twelve Concepts are guides for service. They show how Twelve Step work can be done on a broad scale and how members of a World Service Office can relate to each other and to the […]

Al-Anon’s 12 Traditions – These guidelines are a means of promoting harmony and growth in Al-Anon groups and in the worldwide fellowship of Al-Anon as a whole. Our group experience suggests that our unity depends upon our adherence to these Traditions. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity. For our group […]

Define Alcohol Abuse or Problem Drinker – Alcoholism is a serious, debilitating disease which literally destroys lives. Problem drinkers are those whose alcohol abuse has adversely affected their lives, causing adverse issues in most or all areas of their lives. The nature of alcohol abuse often means there are underlying unresolved issues plaguing the problem drinker. Temperament Problem drinkers often are in […]

Has Your Life Been Affected By Someone Else’s Drinking? Alateen Is For You! – Alateen is for young people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. Sometimes the active drinking has stopped, or the active drinker may not live with us anymore. Even though the alcohol may be gone, and the alcoholic gone or recovering in AA, we are still affected. Many of us have received help […]

How Do Drugs & Alcohol Affect Families? – According to the Betty Ford Center, a national study on drug use and abuse in 2004 showed that 8.5 million Americans age 12 years and older were addicted to alcohol and another 5 million were addicted to another drug. That is far more than the current population of New York City, the nation’s largest city. […]

Al-Anon is a support organization for individuals impacted by another person’s drinking. In New York City, Lois W. and Anne B. formed the organization in 1951. Al-Anon is a twelve-step program that helps its followers recover from the affects of living with a heavy drinker. It is an anonymous fellowship founded on the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

The group is open to anybody who has been negatively impacted by another person’s drinking. This includes partners, children, parents, siblings, and friends. Al-Anon is also open to anyone who have been impacted by the drug usage of another. The group offers a safe and friendly atmosphere in which participants may discuss their experiences and emotions with others who have had similar ones.

Al-Anon meetings are organized in over 130 countries throughout the globe. There are about 24,000 organizations globally, with over 1,500 in the United States alone. Al-Anon is a self-supporting organization that is sustained by its members’ voluntary contributions.

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