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Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path!

Only you can decide whether you want to give Alcoholics Anonymous a try—whether you think it can help you. We who are in A.A. came because we finally gave up trying to control our drinking. We still hated to admit that we could never drink safely. Then we heard from other A.A. members that we were sick. (We thought so for years!) We found out that many people suffered from the same feelings of guilt and loneliness and hopelessness that we did. We found out that we had these feelings because we had the disease of alcoholism. We decided to try to face up to what alcohol had done to us. Here are some of the questions we tried to answer honestly. If we answered YES to four or more questions, we were in deep trouble with our drinking. See how you do. Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem.

Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful!

• A.A. does not promise to solve your life’s problems. But we can show you how we are learning to live without drinking “one day at a time.” We stay away from that “first drink.” If there is no first one, there cannot be a tenth one. And when we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became much more manageable.
• Laurel Recovery has many meetings to meet your schedule
• Laurel Recovery is a “chip giving” group….We give out chips for various lengths of continuous sobriety
• Coffee at every meeting
• Join the Fun, Join the Fellowship
• Who You See Here, What You Hear Here, When You Leave Here, Let It Stay Here

…..Our primary purpose is to Stay Sober and Help another Alcoholic to achieve Recovery