On the new WSO website, al-anon.org, you can find Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings throughout the world, online and on the phone on the “Al‑Anon Meetings” menu.
“Find an Al‑Anon Meeting” and “Find an Alateen Meeting”
- Locate physical Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings within a 100-mile area of your location. The meeting locator provides directions and a view of the actual location!
“Virtual Meetings” are held online and on the phone.
- The Electronic Meeting List includes blog, bulletin board, email and web conferencing Al‑Anon meetings in English.
- The International Virtual Meeting List lists online meetings in languages other than English, French and Spanish. (French and Spanish “virtual” meetings are listed on the French and Spanish websites.)
- Over 100 phone meetings, held in a conference call format in real time, are listed in U.S. Eastern Time.
“Worldwide Al‑Anon Contacts”
- Lists Al‑Anon Information Services and General Service Offices throughout the world.
The selected names of groups or meetings listed on al-anon.org are selected as they may have a particular focus on participants in the meeting, i.e. men, parents, Al-Anon adult children, etc. As the parent of an alcoholic, you may want to consider attending meetings where other parents are experiencing the challenge of an alcoholic child, even if the child is an adult. What is most important is to attend an Al-Anon meeting for emotional support. Once there, seasoned members will be able to guide you as to other meetings in your community.
I do not know where to begin yes I do I deplore booze. All my life it has caused nothing but pain and hurt and disappointing issues. Hitting heals, words don’t ever, all my life they never go away they ramble round and round no where to go.
I can’t take them anymore because I don’t want to. But they’re just gonna guzzle away and mouth off and off to me. I should be in a nursing home but…
On al-anon.org “Open” meetings are now designated as “Families, Friends, and Observers Welcome” and “Closed” meetings as “Families and Friends Only”
If you are affected by someone else’s drinking, you are welcome to attend either meeting.
Hi Everyone
My husband just went into treatment.
His case Manager said, he has to stay a few weeks.
I can’t talk to him.
My daughter of 34 has been an addict for 10yrs. Heroin. Lost 4 children. HATES HATES me. Blames EVERYTHING on me. Just called and told me I abandoned her because I had to walk away…
I am seeking an appropriate al-anon meeting for my husband and me. I am confused by the titles of meeting. My son has a dual diagnosis and despite AA meetings, is drinking again. He is a belligerent drunk and I’m very concerned.
How can I decipher which meetings are suitable?
Thank you.
Theresa
I need a meeting my son had an relapse and my heart is heavy and I need someone to talk too. My family doesn’t understand addicts, so I can’t go to them
I understand each and everyone of you in a very special way. I’ve been affected by a father who drinks since I was a child and a mom who has enabled. Both have been this way because they knew no other way to live. I have attended Al-Anon many years because I married an addict who became very verbally abusive and with the help of another 12 step program, therapy and Al-Anon I was able to leave after an almost 12 year marriage. I never thought that I could leave this father of our daughter and co dependent relationship. Fast… Read more »
I need to find a meeting near me asap. I have an alcoholic husband…for the last 21 years. Lies, doesn’t answer phone, then does not remember anything next day. Thinks he can buy the kids out of his poor behavior. Deposits $1000 in their accounts the next morning… tells me to book a trip to Florida to see sister. All because of his guilt. The kids no longer want to be around him…and to top it off i have a 10 year old son with autism. He thinks the “drunk” dad is the fun dad. My son cannot tell the… Read more »
I live with an alcoholic that has been sober for 3 years. Wonderful guy, but very hard to know in many ways. I feel frustrated and left out a lot of the time.
I am in need of a meeting because my birth father and possibly my birth mother were alcoholics. I am so angry about what that has done to my life
I am looking for a place close to where I live to be able to get me some help
I am in need of a meeting so that I can be free of my 47 year old son, who is an alcoholic. I am 80 and cannot cope any longer with his making me that he must have my money to survive. I am on a fixed income and have an empty fridge.
I realize I need to go back to meetings. I need to keep the focus on me by trying to help. I was really just an enabler. After 3 marriages to addict and alcoholics, I could not change or fix them. Now I am dealing with my 2 adult sons who seem to have the same issues. It is difficult but I must keep going to meetings and not enable or feel I could change them. They have to decide to change and go to AA or program. I thought they had learned by seeing their dad loose everything and… Read more »
Al-Anon Meeting Search
I am looking for al anon online meetings. Can you help?
How do you get someone like myfifty one year old son in trearment? I should add he admits he has an addiction.J
I am looking for an Alanon meeting would like to start online please my husband is an alcoholic long story short he got into car accident broke his neck in 3 places then in process of doing surgery his lungs collapsed was devastating he is now recovering but emotionally I’m going through things too just need a real friend I think! Teresa
My husband only drinks on the weekends but when he does lately, he will finish off a fifth or more every night. It ends with something so little setting him off into an emotional abusive tirade. I believe my cancer journey this last year and the stress that can weigh on a family became too much for him even though I am cancer free. Now we are dealing with this and he is very stubborn and I think deep down he knows there is a problem, but does not want to admit it. I am at such a loss because… Read more »
I am struggling with my alcholic son . It’s so hard I feel I can’t cope sometimes. He has been living with his wife of 11 years but he moved in with me when she had had enough which was about almost two years ago . Since he moved in with me he has spent quite a lot of his time with his wife but every time he had a drink he is back with me . It always everyone else’s fault that he drinks . I very recently lost my mum and my dad who parted when I was… Read more »
I’m feeling so alone my boyfriend has a drinking problem that he can’t control and I feel like I’m losing myself in this relationship cause I’m always stressing about him and we have a son together and I don’t want to have my son grow up in a broken family… don’t know what to do anymore.