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The Twelve
Steps of Cocaine Anonymous
- We admitted we were powerless over cocaine and all other
mind-altering substances -- that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we
understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to
make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God as
we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for
us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.
The Twelve Steps are reprinted and adapted
with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous does not mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program.
A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism. Use of the Steps in
connection with programs and activities which are patterned after
A.A. but which address other problems does not imply otherwise.
Approved Literature. Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Copyright 2003.
The Twelve Traditions of Cocaine Anonymous
- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends
upon C.A. unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our
leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for C.A. membership is a desire to stop
using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or C.A. as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message
to the addict who still suffers.
- A C.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the C.A. name
to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of
money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every C.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
- Cocaine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
- C.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.
- Cocaine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the
C.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level
of press, radio, television and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
The Twelve Traditions are reprinted and
adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics
Anonymous does not mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program.
A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism. Use of the Traditions
in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after
A.A. but which address other problems does not imply otherwise.
Approved Literature. Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Copyright 2003.
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