Medicine To Stop Drinking

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by William Griffith Wilson. Bill grew up in a career in a small town in Vermont. When he was ten, his alcoholic father left and moved to Canada. Bills mother followed suit when she left with her grandparents and moved to Boston to study osteopathic medicine. He studied at the prestigious Academy of Burr and Burton before joining the army at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I, he was in the army he discovered he had not only like alcohol, he loved it. As a soldier, then as a businessman, Bill drank to relieve his depression and to celebrate his success on Wall Street. Bill met his future wife, Lois Burnham, who was four years older than he, during the summer of 1913 while sailing on Lake Emerald Vermont, two years later, the couple 's is engaged. In 1918, he and Lois were married. Shortly after the marriage, Bill and Lois began traveling the country, evaluating companies for potential investors. From the outside looking in the bill seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. However, in 1933, Bill and Lois lived in her parents' house on Clinton Street in Brooklyn, NY He became an unemployable person who had a serious drinking problem. In 1933, he had to be brought to the Hospital Charles B. Cities for drug and alcohol abuse in the city of New York four times. He finally said he died of his alcoholism or to be locked up permanently. Under the bill, while lying in a hospital bed for the fourth time depressed and desperate, he had the sensation of intense light, a feeling of ecstasy, and a new serenity. He never drank again for the rest of his life.

Encouraged by a friend who has stopped drinking, Bill attended the meetings offered by the Oxford group, who was an evangelical society founded in Britain by Frank Buchman Pennsylvanian. Bill joined the group in hopes of helping others to overcome alcoholism, but his efforts were crowned with success. During a business trip does not Akron, Ohio, Bill was tempted to drink and decided that, to stay sober he needed to help another alcoholic. He called the phone numbers on a church directory and finally got an introduction to Mr. Bob Smith, a member alcoholic Oxford Group.

Their meeting lasted for hours. A month later, Dr. Bob had his last drink, and this date, June 10, 1935, is the official birthday of AA, which is based on the idea that only an alcoholic can help another alcoholic. Dr. Bob was familiar with the principles of the Oxford Group has decided to continue Bills spiritual solution to his usual behavior. He achieved sobriety and never drank again until his death in 1950. Bill and Dr. Bob began to work with other alcoholics. After this summer in Akron, Bill returned to New York where he began to have success helping alcoholics. In 1938, after about 100 alcoholics in Akron and New York had become sober, the exchange has decided to promote their recovery program with the publication of a book, for which the bill has been chosen as the lead author. The book was awarded the Alcoholics Anonymous and included in the list of suggested activities for spiritual growth known as the Twelve Steps, which ultimately led to the success of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement today.

Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith fell on the spiritual aspect of recovery of seventy years ago. And there is no question that they should be credited to discover and help people overcome alcoholism. However, I believe that until the last decade, or part of the life of Bill Wilson had been in the secret and success.