Alcoholics Anonymous Founded: A New Path to Recovery
Dr. Robert Smith took his last drink alongside Bill Wilson to establish Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, creating a peer-support model that transformed addiction recovery from a medical mystery into a global movement of shared experience. This partnership birthed the twelve-step program, which now guides millions of people worldwide through structured community support rather than clinical isolation.
June 10, 1935
91 years ago
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Bob Smith (doctor)
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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Akron, Ohio
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Bob Smith (doctor)
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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Akron, Ohio
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Bill W.
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Ohio
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United States
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Ethanol
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John F. Kennedy
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