The 12 Traditions
Of Recovery Groups

The "Twelve Traditions" of Recovery Groups are suggested principles to insure the survival and growth of the thousands of groups that make up the Fellowships. They are based on the experience of the groups themselves during the critical early years of the movement.

The Traditions are important to both oldtimers and newcomers as reminders of the true foundations of Recovery Groups as a society of men and women whose primary concern is to maintain their own sobriety and help others to achieve sobriety:


 

  • 1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon Recovery Groups unity.
  • 2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving Higher Power as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  • 3. The only requirement for Recovery Groups membership is a desire to stop useing.
  • 4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or recovery groups as a whole.
  • 5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the addict who still suffers.
  • 6. Recovery groups ought never endorse, finance, or lend the recovery group name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
  • 7. Every recovery group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  • 8. Recovery Groups should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
  • 9. Recovery Groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  • 10. Recovery Groups should have no opinion on outside issues; hence the recovery groups 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.

 


 

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