We admitted that we were
powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
We came to believe that a
Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
We made a decision to turn
our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
We made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
We admitted to God, to ourselves
and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
We were entirely ready to
have God remove all these defects of character.
We humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
We made a list of all persons
we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
We made direct amends to
such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
We continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
We 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 a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts,
and to practise these principles in all our affairs.