We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives
had become unmanageable
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us
to sanity
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
as we understood God
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make
amends to them all
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact
with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for
us and the power to carry that out
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs