QUESTIONS GRADED A+
⫸ Step 2. Answer: Came to believe that a power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity
⫸ Step 3. Answer: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood him
⫸ Step 4. Answer: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves
⫸ Step 5. Answer: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs
⫸ Step 6. Answer: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of characters
⫸ Step 7. Answer: Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings
⫸ Step 8. Answer: Made a list of all the persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all
⫸ Step 9. Answer: Made a direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
,⫸ Step 10. Answer: Continued to take personal inventory and when
we were wrong, promptly admitted it
⫸ Step 11. Answer: 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
⫸ Step 12. Answer: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice
these principles in all our affairs
⫸ Tradition 1. Answer: Our common welfare should come first;
personal recovery depends upon AA unity
⫸ Tradition 2. Answer: For our group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority- a loving God as He may express Himself in our
group conscience our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not
govern
⫸ Tradition 3. Answer: The only requirement for AA membership is a
desire to stop drinking
⫸ Tradition 4. Answer: Each group should be autonomous expect in
matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole
,⫸ Tradition 5. Answer: Each group has but one primary purpose, to
carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers
⫸ Tradition 6. Answer: An AA group never endorse, finance or lend
the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest
problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary
purpose
⫸ Tradition 7. Answer: Every AA group ought to be fully self
supporting, declining outside contributions
⫸ Tradition 8. Answer: AA should remain forever non professional,
but our service centers may employ special workers
⫸ Tradition 9. Answer: AA as such ought never be organized but we
may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those
they serve
⫸ Tradition 10. Answer: AA has no opinion on outside issues, hence
the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy
⫸ Tradition 11. Answer: Our public relations policy is based on
attraction rather than promotion, we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films
, ⫸ Tradition 12. Answer: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all
our traditions ever reminding us to place principles, before
personalities
⫸ Definition of a Psychoactive Drug. Answer: Any substance that
directly alters normal functioning of the central nervous system
⫸ Uppers. Answer: Stimulants of the CNS
-cocaine, amphetamines, amphetamine cogeners (Ritalin), plan
stimulants (khat, betel nuts, ephedra, yohimbe), lookalike stimulants,
caffeine, nicotine
⫸ Mental/Emotional Effects of Uppers. Answer: More confident,
outgoing, eager to perform & excited
Rush, anxiety, rapid speech, aggressiveness
extreme anxiety, paranoia, anhedonia, mental confusion, mimic
psychosis
⫸ Physical Effects of Uppers. Answer: Stimulation of the CNS
Energized muscles, increased heart rate, increased BP, insomnia,
decreased appetite
Deplete body's energy chemicals and exhaust user- heart, blood
vessels, and seizure problems can occur
cancer, heart disease, emphysema
⫸ Downers. Answer: CNS Depressants