The 12 steps of DDA
One: We admitted we were powerless over our dual diagnosis, and that our lives had become unmanageable.
Two: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Eight: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Nine: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Eleven: 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.
Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others who still suffer from the effects of dual diagnosis, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Note: The Twelve Steps are reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean that A.A. is in any way
affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only -- use of the
Twelve Steps in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, on in any other non A.A. context, does not imply otherwise
Plus FIVE
- We admitted that we had a mental illness, in addition to our substance abuse, and we accepted our dual diagnosis.
- We became willing to accept help for both of these diseases.
- We have understood the importance of medication, clinical interventions and therapies, and we have accepted the need for sobriety from alcohol and abstinence from all non-prescribed drugs in our program.
- We came to believe that when our own efforts were combined with the help of others in the fellowship of DDA, and God, as we understood Him, we would develop healthy drug and alcohol-free lifestyles.
- We continued to follow the DDA Recovery Program of the 12 Steps Plus 5 and we maintained healthy drug and alcohol-free lifestyles, and helped others.
THE TWELVE TRADITIONS
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon DDA Unity.
2. For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God, of our understanding, as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for DDA Membership is a desire to develop healthy drug and alcohol free lifestyles.
4. Each DDA group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or DDA as a whole.
5. Each DDA group has one primary purpose - to carry its message of hope and recovery to those who still suffer from the effects of Dual Diagnosis.
6. A DDA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the DDA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. DDA, as such, ought to exercise extreme caution and diligence in accepting outside contributions or other sources of funding, lest we be distracted from our primary purpose. Every local chapter of DDA should strive to be self supporting.
8. Dual Diagnosis Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. DDA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create advisory boards, service boards and committees directly responsible to DDA and those DDA serves.
10. Dual Diagnosis Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the DDA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction, rather than promotion. Our group consciousness reveals that this policy is founded upon the principle that DDAers do recover and that this recovery is evidenced among us in the quality and life satisfaction of those of us who follow the DDA way.
12. Confidentiality and Anonymity are the spiritual foundations of all our traditions ever reminding us that trust is a cornerstone of our fellowship and to place principles before personalities.
The Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Service
7TH TRADITONT OFDDA, as such, ought to exercise extreme caution and diligence in accepting outside contributions or other sources of funding, lest we be distracted from our primary purpose. Every local chapter of DDA should strive to be self supporting.
TIME TO PASS THE BASKET DDA IS SELF SUPPORTING.
