Welcome to District 23: Upper and Mid-Shore of Eastern Maryland Al-Anon Meetings

Is Al-Anon For You?


->Do you feel responsible for others?
-> Do you feel there is no one who understands your problems?
-> Are you troubled by someone elses drinking?
-> Have you been hurt or embarrassed by a drinker's behavior?
-> Did you grow up with a problem drinker?
-> Do you worry about how much someone else drinks?
You can see what the drinking is doing or has done, to the drinker, but can you see what it is doing to YOU? Al-Anon is for you!

If you have any questions about the meetings in District 23, or Al-Anon you may E-Mail them to us and one of our members will reply.

The sole purpose of Al-Anon is to help the family and friends of the problem drinker. There are no dues or fees for membership. We welcome all faiths, genders & races.

We understand that we did not cause the disease, we cannot control it and we cannot cure it.

Al-Anon is a recovery program for families and friends of alcoholics, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. Alateen, a part of Al-Anon, is for teens and preteens affected by someone else's drinking, not for young alcoholics seeking sobriety for themselves. All meetings are free of charge.

For the Newcomer this Podcast First Steps to Al-Anon will let you know what to expect at Al-Anon meeting.
We welcome you to the Al-Anon Family Groups and hope you will find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as perhaps few others can. We, too were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Anon we discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not./We urge you to try our program. It will show you how to find solutions that lead to serenity.


So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to place our problems in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to dominate our thoughts and our lives.

The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the Al-Anon ideas. Without such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most of us.

Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we become irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.

The Al-Anon program is based on the Twelve Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to our lives along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving interchange of help among members and daily reading of Al-Anon literature thus make us ready to receive the priceless gift of serenity.

Al-Anon is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the group meetings and member to member, must be held in confidence. Only in this way can we feel free to say what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another in Al-Anon.



Alanon Forum Magazine"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."



Al-Anon's monthly magazine, The Forum, contains many personal stories of inspiration, some of which are made available each month on the Internet by authorization of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.