1.
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on ADA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority-- a loving God
as God's expression may be found in our group conscious. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for ADA membership is a desire to explore the use of
the twelve steps, the twelve traditions, and the principles of the program to
better live with an affective disorder.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups
or ADA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose-- to carry ADA's twelve step message
to the affective who still suffers.
6. An ADA group ought to never endorse, finance, or lend the ADA name to any
related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and
prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every ADA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Affective Disorders Anonymous should forever remain nonprofessional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
9. ADA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards
or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Affective Disorders Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the
ADA name ought never be drawn into public 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, TV,
internet, and film.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding
us to place principles
before personalities.
THE
TWELVE TRADITIONS
The
Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous have been reprinted and
adapted with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
("A.A.W.S."). Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Traditions
does
not mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery
from alcoholism only - use of A.A.'s Traditions or an adapted version of its
Traditions in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after
A.A., but address other problems, or use in any other non-A.A. context, does
not
imply otherwise. As requested by A.A.W.S., the original version of the Twelve
Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous is reprinted below:
THE TWELVE TRADITIONS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as
He may
express Himself in our group conscious. Our leaders are but trusted servants;
they do
not govern. 3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop
drinking. 4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other
groups or A.A. as a whole. 5. Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry
it's
message to the alcoholic who still suffers. 6. An A.A. group ought to never
endorse,
finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise,
lest
problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7.
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8.
Alcoholics Anonymous should forever remain nonprofessional, but our service
centers
may employ special workers. 9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized, but
we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10.
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought
never be drawn into public 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.