600 State Street, Salem, Oregon 97301
Daily Reprieve Salem
223.8 miles away from Bates, Oregon
5303 River Road North, Keizer, Oregon 97303
Design for Living
223.9 miles away from Bates, Oregon
8441 North Indian Trail Road, Spokane, Washington 99208
District 17
223.9 miles away from Bates, Oregon
1901 North Esther Street, Newberg, Oregon 97132
Sisters in Sobriety Newberg
223.9 miles away from Bates, Oregon
452 Cummings Lane North, Keizer, Oregon 97303
Morning Coffee
223.9 miles away from Bates, Oregon
582 High Street Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Step of the Month AA Group
224 miles away from Bates, Oregon
511 Southwest 211th Avenue, Aloha, Oregon 97006
Aloha Mens Combined
224.1 miles away from Bates, Oregon
1444 Liberty Street Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97302
Downtown Group Salem
224.1 miles away from Bates, Oregon
2315 Villa Road, Newberg, Oregon 97132
Road to Recovery Newberg
224.2 miles away from Bates, Oregon
14015 East Trent Avenue, Spokane Valley, Washington 99216
District 13
224.3 miles away from Bates, Oregon
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Bates, Oregon as the funding is accepted on a donation from its members.
AA is one of most commonly known programs in the United States and around the world that helps countless men and women achieve sobriety in the pursuit of lifelong recovery. They are usually small groups of recovering alcoholics who share their recovery journey and are there to help new members get sober.
Alcohol Addiction is a disease of the mind, body, and soul. AA has curated meetings to help with each individual piece of your sobriety. If you are in search of a meeting on the first three steps, you should choose a beginner meeting. If you are looking to get more in touch with your spiritual side, attending a meditation meeting would be an ideal choice. If you are in search of stories of inspiration for overcoming alcoholism, a speaker meeting is a good starting point. If you are through your steps and are now working on the traditions of AA, a tradition meetings will help. If you want to attend a single gender group, you can go to a men’s or women's meeting where you won't find anyone of the opposite gender there. The fact of the matter is there is a meeting for everyone. Try different meetings out until you find one that fits your needs.
In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should remain open minded. Everyone had preconceived notions of what these meetings were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and humbly ask for help. Regardless of the meeting, there will be the same message of recovering from hopelessness. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another person suffering from alcoholism which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.