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Originally Posted by theglory7

To comment on the AA book, it is a great book and too those individuals in AA or NA it becomes their bible in a sense. The thing I really like about it, is that it encourages you to have a spiritual awakening through the 12 steps, in which one of those steps is to acknowledge a God according to your understanding, not someone elses'. I understand this is a very broad statement, but I think it is necessary to reach a broad audience of individuals that are spiritually broken for one reason or another and have succumb to the illness of addiction. Defiantly a must read!

By the way, I'm really sorry to hear about your family and the struggles your going through. At these AA meetings there is usually another group that meets there called Alanon, and that is for family members who deal with addiction within their family because it is a family disease in which the whole family goes through the pain and suffering even if they do not drink or use drugs, everyone is affected. I've been to these meeting, and is something that may benefit you, these people would be able to relate to you and share their experiences. Stay strong, I will defiantly keep you in my prayers.