Back to the Basics of Recovery is a 2016 version of the 1946 Beginners' Meetings described in a best selling recovery book titled, Back to Basics. The Back to Basics book has been rewritten specifically for treatment centers, aftercare facilities, half-way houses, recovery homes, correctional facilities, and twelve-step programs. The material has been modified for all addictive and compulsive behaviors, and the "Big Book" passages have been converted to gender neutral.
Over the past twenty years, the author has guided more than 100,000 people through the Twelve Steps in one-day seminars. Thousands of others have led Beginners' Meetings and at this time, more than 700,000 have taken the Steps using the Back to Basics format with dramatic results. "It works--it really does."
