Al-Anon is a meeting for close friends and family of a person with a drug or alcohol addiction.

There just basically going to talk about the pressures that are put on you by living with or being around a addict. Its a good place to talk about behaviors and patterns and how to deal with them. Its also a great place to find the best ways to support the addict in recovery. If its your first time id keep your ears open and just listen, you will find out you can relate to a lot that's being said. I'm a former drug counselor, you can always PM me if you have any questions. I was also a addict for a number of years and have been clean since 1997.

No, but i just want to say 'well done' and good luck xx

I hope it went well for you. My mother tried to get my brother and I to go when we were teens. I think we had to much anger at our dad at the time. I really wish she would have been more insistent. I finally went as an adult in my 30's. It was like being born again. It changed my life and it actually brought my dad and I close together.

you will be surrounded by a lot of ppl who love you and know EXACTLY what you are going thru -

Just expect people to be supportive of strangers they don't know Below are the 12 Steps in their entirety, as originally published by AA. Please click on an individual step to learn more about it. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step 11: 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. Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs source: http://www.12step.com/12steps.html