Running head: My visit to an AA meeting I attended a AA meeting on Saturday night at 7: 00 pm in Bergen County Housing Health Human Services Center 120 South River Street. This simple experience opened my eyes as a person and as a future nurse .One of the First things I noted was the alcohol addiction has no social boundaries or race‚ Gendered or age‚ the meeting was very diverse to my surprise. At an AA meeting‚ people with alcoholism are accepted and understood‚ helping many People keep
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AA/NA Observation Andrea Ross February 15‚ 2011 Health class For my observation. I attended an NA meeting. It was in Hemet CA‚ on a Tuesday night. The building was called “Red Dog Group”. I had walked in‚ and told the lady at the front desk that I was here to sit in on a meeting and observe it for my health class. She said”Of course you can‚ just wait here for about another 10 minutes
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Step Meeting The meeting I attended took place in Bothell on a weeknight at 7:00 pm in the evening. The meeting was held in a local church and there were 17 people in attendance‚ excluding myself. Among the 17 people‚ there were 6 women and 11 men. The average attendee was approximately between the ages of 40-50‚ 4 people were under the age of 30‚ and two were somewhere around 60. Of the 17 people‚ 16 were white and one woman was of an Asian-American descent. The focus of the meeting was
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AA Meeting After reading and hearing about everyone’s experience with alcohol I decided to attend an AA meeting. I chose this for two reasons‚ one because I wanted to see if these meeting are effective and second because after hearing everyone’s stories I began to doubt myself. I consider myself a social drinker because I like to go out and party mostly every weekend. After learning so much about alcohol I started to wonder if I depended on it in order to have fun. Honestly it is quite scary to
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AA Meeting Mandeep Kaur RN 40L July 02‚ 2013 Group Selection: I selected an Alcoholic anonymous meeting. I wanted to see what they do and how it works for people who are alcoholics. I searched alcoholic anonymous meetings in Fresno and found this community service group online at http://fresnoaa.org/home/ Purpose of the group: In Alcoholic Anonymous meeting‚ people gather from community in groups to help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from alcohol. These meetings are free
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When I saw on my syllabus that I had to attend an AA meeting‚ I was vey nervous‚ frightening and anxious. Walking through the door of my first AA meeting was‚ stressful and uncertain‚ since I did not know what to expect. Being an observator among total strangers‚ who‚ willing wasting their lives away by driking without any regards for their families and friends was not my idea of time well spend. There are hundreds of studies that had shown‚ alcohol have destructive short term and long term effects
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Visits to AA meetings I was quite apprehensive about going to a meeting‚ more so than I expected to be. I am not an alcoholic‚ and I was nervous about being invasive to those who are... I am involved in other support groups and I would feel violated if a student sat in one... especially if they participated in any way. I comforted myself with the fact that is acceptable to have visitors at open meetings... then I had to find open meetings. I was also worried about encountering really small
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Hello everyone‚ I went to my first NA/ AA meeting tonight and could not wait to discuss the outcome. The main thing I found interesting is many people was in recovery for years. At least 10 people was clean over 5 years‚ but continue to attend meetings as part of their recovery process or to maintain clean. Also‚ many people became addicted to drugs due pain management. Speaking about knee pain‚ back pain‚ several people was in car accidents or hurt at work. Regular pain medication was not working
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2016 I attended an Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) meeting. In order to go about finding this meeting‚ I researched AA meetings in my location through the AA meeting website‚ AAVirginia.org. When using the internet resources they provided the name of the group that were meeting‚days available for meetings and the times‚ and the name of the location along with its address. Another piece of important information that was provided was the subject matter of the meeting‚ what they covered‚ and what type of building
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Laura Byrd Reflection Paper Addiction and Obsession Soc. 301 6/10/13 Upon entering the NA meeting I had mixed feelings. I didn’t know how to come to the meeting knowing my intentions were neither to give nor receive help. I felt like I was an intruder. I didn’t understand why I should betray others or act as if I was an addict who chose not to interact in the healing and recovering process. All of those things pushed me into the door of a meeting and open my mind to the hurt behind the
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