1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery
depends upon group unity.
2. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for Gamblers Anonymous membership is a desire to stop
gambling.
4. Each group should be self-governing except in matters affecting other groups
or Gamblers Anonymous as a whole.
5. Gamblers Anonymous has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the
compulsive gambler who still suffers.
6. Gamblers Anonymous ought never endorse, finance or lend the Gamblers
Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of
money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every Gamblers Anonymous Group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8. Gamblers Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
9. Gamblers Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Gamblers Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Gamblers
Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion;
we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films,
television and Internet.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of the Gamblers
Anonymous program,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.