Whatcom County Al-Anon
How can Al-Anon help me?
Our personal situations may be different, but we share as equals because of what we have in common: our lives have been affected by another person’s drinking. Al-Anon is a mutual support group.
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We can find understanding and support when we share our common experience with each other. Some of us are here because a spouse or partner has struggled with alcoholism. For others, the problem drinker is a parent, child, or grandchild. Sometimes a brother, a sister, or some other friend or relative brings us to Al-Anon. Many of us have had more than one alcoholic family member or friend.
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Alcoholism has similar effects on us all, even though our relationships to the alcoholic may be different. Many newcomers are most interested in hearing about situations and relationships that are similar to their own. Over time, however, we come to understand that we can benefit from hearing how the Al-Anon principles worked in many different circumstances.
Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism
Find out more about Al-Anon and the family disease of alcoholism in our Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism booklet.
Al-Anon and Alateen have several books and pamphlets. You can acquire them at a local group meeting or for more information, please email literature@whatcomafg.org
Someone Close to Me Has a Drug Problem
Al‑Anon Family Groups have one focus: to help friends and families of alcoholics. Al‑Anon’s most recent membership survey reported, however, that 35 percent of Al‑Anon members first came to Al‑Anon Family Groups because of a friend or relative who had a drug problem. The survey also showed that 78 percent of these members eventually came to realize that someone’s drinking had also negatively affected their lives.
Al-Anon Conference-Approved Literature is detailed on our Literature page, and downloadable Al-Anon Literature is available via this Link to the World Service Office Website…