The people that attend All Addictions Big Book Step Study (BBSS) meetings come from Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Codependents Anonymous, Al-Anon, Overeaters Anonymous, Food Addicts Anonymous, Smokers Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous and/or other anonymous 12 Step based fellowships. Most, if not all of us, belong to several fellowships. We share our experience, strength and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from any and all addictions, whether they are substance or behaviorally based. It is of great relief to us to be able to discuss the Steps in the Big Book from the perspective of multiple addictions. We have come to understand that after Step One, (which mentions a specific substance/behavior in the other fellowships) the focus is on the solution, not the problem. We have learned, through our direct experience, that the solution is the same, regardless of the problem. Here are the Steps we study (and work, on a daily basis) based on the 12 Steps in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous:

   1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and/or our addictive behaviors– that our lives had become unmanageable.
• 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
• 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
• 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
• 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
• 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
• 7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
• 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
• 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
• 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
• 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
• 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others struggling with addiction and/or addictive behaviors, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

In the Spirit of the Broad Highway, we have also listed links to other BBSS meetings held by individual fellowships such as AA and OA. Contact us to add, delete or change additional links. This site also provides recordings of Big Book Step Study speakers from various 12 Step Fellowships that are available on the Internet.