Step One:

"We admitted we were powerless over - that our lives had become unmanageable."

Step Two:

"Came to believe that could restore us to sanity."

Step Three:

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God ."

Step Four:

"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Step Five:

"Admitted to God, ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

Step Six:

"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."

Step Seven:

"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."

Step Eight:

"Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all."

Step Nine;

"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

Step Ten:

"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

Step Eleven:

"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God , praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."

Step Twelve:

"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry the message to others addicted to , and to practice these principles in all our affairs."