Big Book Study

Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alco - holic men and women to recovery, there exists strong  sentiment against any radical changes being made in it. View Publication

We if Alcoholics Anonymous are more than one hundred men and women who have re covered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. View Publication

Since the original Forward to this book waswritten in 1939, a wholesale miracle has taken place. Our earliest printing voiced the hope “that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination. Already,” continues the early text “twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities.” View Publication

By March 1876, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups  meeting in over 90 countries. View Publication

This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium. Since the third edition was pub lished in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.