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Receiving encouragement and guidance on important decisions and making positive changes in your life can help. The brain area responsible for decision-making is the prefrontal cortex, which is also the part of the brain most impacted by alcohol misuse. Sanity refers to sound judgment and making good decisions. Step 2: Came to Believe a Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us to Sanity Two examples of this connection include Step 2 and Step 11 of AA. The research team further notes a connection between each of the 12 Steps and the neurotransmitters in the brain. For example, bonding with group members releases oxytocin, a neurotransmitter in the brain that gives a sense of pleasure and reward. Twelve-step programs, according to some researchers, have a neurological effect. Increases attendance in other group meetings and recovery activities.Reduces the severity and frequency of alcohol misuse.Participants who actively participate in fellowships tend stay in recovery longer. Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-step facilitation groups such as Al-Anon meetings shows recovery outcomes of these groups are more beneficial than many other resources available outside of conventional addiction treatment. Find ways to provide a service or give back through each program separatelyīenefits of Attending Both AA and Al-Anon Meetings.Read and study materials on each program.

Work the AA and Al-Anon 12 Steps separately.

Attend AA and Al-Anon meetings regularly.

Who Answers? Guidelines for Double WinnersĪre you wondering what happens at Al-Anon meetings and how that differs from AA? Do you want to know what is expected of you at each? There are general guidelines for active double winners: 3

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These peer support programs are also often supplemental resources for professional addiction recovery treatment, which can be another kind of “win.” You get double the material, feedback, and encouragement than attending one group. 3 For example, someone may have alcohol addiction and, at the same time, may have codependency issues with their spouse, who also has an addiction.Īttending more than one recovery program means working a different program for each. They get to attend more than one recovery support group. Members of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon lovingly joke that people who have alcohol addiction and have a family member with addiction are “double winners.” In a way, they truly are winners.

Benefits of Attending Both AA and Al-Anon Meetings.

“The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. Our lives, our thinking, and our desires center around marijuana-scoring it, dealing it, and finding ways to stay high. Ours is a progressive illness often leading us to addictions to other drugs, including alcohol. Marijuana controls our lives! We lose interest in all else our dreams go up in smoke. We who are marijuana addicts know the answer to this question.

Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps of Recovery founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12-Step Recovery program works! We can do this by practicing our suggested Twelve Steps of recovery and by being guided as a group by our Twelve Traditions.

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Our primary purpose is to stay free of marijuana and to help the marijuana addict who still suffers achieve the same freedom. MA is not affiliated with any religious or secular institution or organization, and has no opinion on any outside controversies or causes. We are self-supporting through our own contributions. There are no dues or fees for membership. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share our experience, strength, and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from marijuana addiction.

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