The Twelve Traditions
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon DDA Unity.
For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving Higher Power, as expressed through our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for DDA Membership is a desire to develop healthy addiction free lifestyles.
Each DDA group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups, events, support and/or DDA as a whole.
Each DDA group has one primary purpose - to carry its message of hope and recovery to those who still experience the effects of Dual Diagnosis.
DDA, as such, ought to exercise extreme caution and only with DDA’s board permission in rare occasions, to endorse, finance, or lend the DDA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from primary purpose.
DDA, as such, ought to exercise extreme caution and diligence in accepting outside contributions or other sources of funding, lest we be distracted from our primary purpose. Every local chapter of DDA should strive to be self-supporting.
Dual Diagnosis Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers will employ special workers, i.e. directors, managers, coordinators, and facilitators.
DDA, as such, will create a board of directors, advisory boards, service boards and committees directly responsible to DDA and those DDA serves.
Dual Diagnosis Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the DDA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction, rather than promotion. Our group consciousness reveals that this policy is founded upon the principle that DDAers do recover and that this recovery is evidenced among us in the quality and life satisfaction of those of us who follow the DDA way.
Confidentiality and Anonymity are the spiritual foundations of all our traditions ever reminding us that trust is a cornerstone of our fellowship and to place principles before personalities.