Alcoholics Anonymous Research Paper

Alcoholics anonymous was first open in Akron Ohio in 1935 and has helped thousands of people around the world today. It was co- founded by Bill Wilson who also is an international mutual aid fellowship as well as Robert Holbrook Smith who went by the name “Dr. Bob Smith”. He was an American physician and surgeon who just like Bill Wilson helped co-found AA.

AA stands for Alcoholics anonymous and its symbol is a “sobriety circle and triangle symbol”. The triangle represents three answers which are unity, recovery, and service. These go with a three part answer which is disease physical, mental and spiritual. And the circle represents the wholeness as well as the oneness the AA brings to a person's life. This is a very spiritual program, however, the alcoholics anonymous does not

His parents were Emily nee Griffith and Gilman Barrows Wilson. Both of his parents abandoned him his dad went on a “business trip” and never came back and his mother left to go study osteopathic medicine. He and his sister were cared for by their grandparents who were alcoholics. He went on to study law, however, due to the fact that he was too drunk to pick up his diploma he didn’t graduate so he decided to become a stockbroker. He and his wife traveled a lot and that was her strategy to make sure her husband would no longer drink, unfortunately, that did not work and his drinking ruined his reputation and frowned his success. Wilson went to the doctor and it was there that he discovered that alcoholism was both mental and a physical disease, Wilson joined the oxford group and tried his best to help other alcoholics, although, he wanted to drink himself, he had to think of the needs of other people. In order to help he himself had to be sober. In the last 37 years of his life, however, he depended on cigarettes instead, he died of emphysema and pneumonia on January 24, 1971, in route to treatment in Miami