About AA – Alcoholics Anonymous
AA - Alcoholics Anonymous in Seward, Alaska is a 12-Step addiction recovery program for youth and adults. They offer peer-directed, community-based care, including gender-specific and specialized services for adolescents, young adults, seniors, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and persons with co-occurring disorders.
Community-Based Program
Clients in AA engage in intensive, peer-coordinated, group counseling. Meetings are free, anonymous, open to the public, and available 365 days per year, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Clients also receive one-on-one recovery coaching from a self-selected peer sponsor.
The 12-Step Model
The 12-Step model of recovery emphasizes whole-person healing that supports clients’ physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual healing based on a stages-of-change model. Clients participate in extensive, recovery-focused life-skills training that addresses topics such as coping, self-care, accountability, forgiveness, trauma resolution, wellness, and relapse prevention.
Payment
All services provided by AA, including group counseling and addiction education programs, are free. However, peer referrals to paid service providers may be provided. Many medical, mental health, and addiction recovery specialists work with commercial insurers, such as Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross BlueShield, and Humana, to offset treatment costs. Check with your insurance provider to verify coverage, because out of network benefits can vary.
Payment Options
- Free
Levels of Care
12-Step
12-step programs are addiction recovery models based on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). A number of substance abuse programs (including some drug and alcohol rehab centers) use the 12 steps as a basis for treatment. Beginning steps involve admitting powerlessness over the addiction and creating a spiritual basis for recovery. Middle steps including making direct amends to those who've been hurt by the addiction, and the final step is to assist others in addiction recovery in the same way. 12-Step offshoots including Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) and Gamblers Anonymous (GA).
Programs
Adult program
Elderly program
Program for men
Program for women
Young adult program
Treatment
Alcoholism
The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.
Drug Addiction
During drug rehab in Alaska, you'll receive a combination of medical and psychotherapeutic treatments that are designed to treat drug dependency. The goal of drug rehab is to break this dependency and help you develop the skills to maintain a drug-free life.
Substance Abuse
Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.
Clinical Services
Group Therapy
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.