Other 12-Step Programs for Police Officers
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The fact that you're not an alcoholic does not mean you can't benefit from other 12-Step programs.  The steps and lessons to be learned, as well as the value of the meetings themselves, are universal and can be beneficial to those of us facing a wide variety of challenges.  Some of us go to a program listed below in addition to AA.
 
We invite you to look over the below list and consider one of the following.

12-Step Programs

of value to law enforcement

 

 

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an organization of people who share a mutual desire to stop drinking alcohol. AA suggests members completely abstain from alcohol, regularly attend meetings with other members, and follow its program to help each other with their common purpose; to help members "stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety."

 

Adult Children of Alcoholics is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. We meet with each other in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present.  We take positive action. By practicing the Twelve Steps and accepting a loving Higher Power of our understanding, we find freedom from the past and a way to improve our lives today.

 

Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a twelve-step program for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships. CoDA is active in more than 40 countries, with approximately 1200 groups active in the United States.  Adult children of dysfunctional families often suffer from a sense of confusion and deprivation that has continued into their adult life — a feeling of "not knowing what normal is" — that has become an anguished desire to recover something emotionally missing in their upbringing.

 

Al-Anon is an international organization with a membership of over half a million men and women, providing a twelve-step program of recovery for friends and family members of alcoholics.  Al-Anon uses the same twelve-steps as AA with slight modifications, but the literature used in the organization focuses on problems common to friends and family members of alcoholics (loyalty to those who are abusive, excessive care-taking, inability to differentiate love and pity).

 

Emotions Anonymous (EA) is a twelve-step program for recovery from mental and emotional illness. As of 2004 there were approximately 1,100 EA groups active in the United States.  EA is the largest of three organizations that have adapted the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to create a program for people suffering from mental and emotional illness, replacing the word "alcohol" with "our emotions" in the First Step.

 

Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experiences and support with each other so that they may help themselves and others cure their marijuana addiction. It utilizes the 12-Step program, as developed by Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a twelve-step program of recovery from drug addiction, modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It describes itself as a nonprofit "fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem",  and it is the second-largest 12-step organization.

 

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction. SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977, by a musician who was also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he consistently acted out and was serially unfaithful to his wife. He founded SLAA as an attempt to stop his compulsive sexual behavior.

 

Workaholics Anonymous (WA) is a twelve-step program for people identifying themselves as "powerless over compulsive work, worry, or activity" including, but not limited to, workaholics–including overworkers and those who suffer from unmanageable procrastination or work aversion.