Directory of Recovery Related Websites

The Orange Papers

Certainly one of the most extensive criticisms of the 12 step approach and most specifically of A.A.

Big Book Bunch

Background study and online questions about working through each of the 12 steps (plus step 0!), as well as essays on other topics in recovery.

A.A. Speaker Tapes

Archive of many audio recordings of  A.A. speakers, including Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. These are all free to download and listen to.

Hit a Meeting

Hitameeting.com is a single source for finding numerous 12-step meetings. There is information on over 65,000 scheduled meetings across the U.S. on this community-maintained site. It covers meetings for AA, NA, OA, SAA, CoDA, AlAnon, GA and Cocaine Anonymous. This is part of the mysobrietynetwork group of sites.

StepChat.com

A site dedicated primarily to on-going online meetings. The site has 8 different chat rooms, 5 of which have meeting schedules and 3 of which are always open for open chat sessions. Chat meetings deal with addictions for alcohol, drugs, al-anon/codependency and self-injury. There are meetings every day and usually you can find someone in one of the chat rooms. Meetings are also listed on this web sites Meetings section.

A Hunger for Healing

Author: J. Keith Miller

 Subtitled "The Twelve Steps as a Classical Model for Christian Spiritual Growth", Keith Miller goes through the classic 12 step program and describes how it can be used very effectively for Christian spiritual growth, no matter what they dysfunction or addiction in ones life. 

Serenity is Forever

Elegant gifts for sober women. Beautiful and very reasonably priced jewelry for recovering women. Things like the serenity prayer on hearts and prayer wheel bangles that endlessly repeat the serentiy prayer. These are made by an artist in recovery who finds this healing for her process of recovery as well.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

A follow-up to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in many ways. It is a more methodical telling of how to work the 12 step program and what the twelve traditions of Alcohlics Anonymous and most 12 step groups thereafter are all about. Highly recommended for anyone working a 12 step program.

Food Addicts in Recovery

Official site for the World Service Office for Food Addicts in Recovery.

"FA has proven to be an effective, long-term solution to food addiction for many food addicts, whether they be undereaters, bulimics, overeaters, or otherwise food-obsessed."

- From their web site

Alcoholics Anonymous

Official site of the Alcohlics Anonymous World Services Organization. This was the original 12 step recovery program that was started in the 1930s. The site contains the latest version of the Big Book, which was the original text for the 12 step program. There are also links to meeting lists and various other resources related to the AA programs.

Co-Dependents Anonymous

Official web site of CoDA World Fellowship.

"A CoDA group is composed of two or more individuals whose purpose in meeting is a desire for healthy relationships. A group applies the principles of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, as adapted for our purpose from Alcoholics Anonymous."

- From their web site

Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous - the Big Book - is the classic book about the 12 Step program. It has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged while personal stories have been adde ...

Sobriety.tv

Videos dealing with recovery and sobriety. These include videos of people in recovery, educational videos of the effects of addiction, addiction and the legal system and many other areas. They are broken down into several areas.

• Stories
• 12 Steps
• Documentaries
• Shorts
• Features
• Public Service Announcements
• Education
• Road to Recovery Shows

BlameDenial

A site that challenges the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

4th Step Workshop

An in-depth study of the 4th step from the Big Book.

"In 1983 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, a few AA members started a group to study how the Big Book was telling us to take the 4th. Step. Later other groups invited our members to come and put on a 4th. Step Workshop for their members. The group continues today as a moving workshop with members in cities and towns in southwestern B.C. "

Recovery Realm

Online AA, NA ,12 step and recovery chat, online meetings, message forums,and blogs. Be part of the solution, not the problem.

Working the 12 Steps of A.A.

One recovering alcoholic's explanation of how to work the 12steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Not an official A.A. document, but helpful for those working the steps of A.A.

Recovery Universe

A little known but very nice site dealing with recovery issues using primarily the 12 Step approach. It has chat rooms, audio files of talks and many other resources. It won the Recovery Website of the year in 2005 from Recovery Times, a well-deserved honor.

Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) was one of the earliest 12 step programs and is targeted towards recovery from drug abuse.