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They shaped AA's 12-step program, which became the model for numerous other recovery programs. Its 12 steps toward recovery are outlined in AA's ''Big Book,'' first published in 1939:

1.	We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - 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 Him.
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 Him 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 whenever possible.
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 Him.
12.	Having had a spiritual awakening, we tried to carry this message to all alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.