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Taken together, the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions and 12 Concepts embody what are known as the Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous: Recovery, Unity and Service.

Recovery has given us a second chance to find happiness and freedom; to live useful and productive lives. The 12 steps and the Big Book are known as
Recovery and are the entire foundation of the program. Bill W.’s words in the forward of the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions states that; “AA’s 12
Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to
become happily and usefully whole”