We admit we are powerless over addiction - that our lives have become unmanageable.

We have come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.

We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him.

We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.

We make a list of all persons we have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.

We make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so could injure them or others.

We continue to take personal inventory, and when we were/are wrong, promptly admit it.

We seek 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 try to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.