Together against the green dragon / day

Alcoholism in the US had become a real disease in the mid -thirties, writes History.com. After the abolition of the dry law, a large number of Americans, who had previously been afraid of the penalties for visiting illegal drinkers, buying smuggled whiskey or rum, or healing of a candy with homemade apparatus. The country gradually began to recover from the big depression, but the income that came into the purses of citizens was often spent in pubs and in the stores of alcoholic beverages.

Among those who became alcohol -dependent was the former New York Stock Exchange Bill Wilson, and Robert Smith, a surgeon living in Acrona. At the beginning of the summer of 1935, the fate brought them together. Wilson, who had already spent some eight months in his mind, managed to convince Smith that this was the only right solution. On June 10, the surgeon drank the last glass of beer so as not to shake his hands during the regular operation, and agreed with Wilson that the two would try to take them similar to the right way – people who are suffering from alcohol who are aware of the problem but lack their strength and support to solve it.

Anonymous alcoholics were not an immediate success story. It began to bear its fruits around the second half of the 1960s, when more Americans had already made sure that Wilson and Smith’s 12 -step program could really be effective. Currently, the movement has covered more than 180 countries around the world, and it is estimated that they could have more than 120,000 groups in total, each with a dozen or a couple of dozen people who want to get rid of the green dragon.