Secular Organizations for Sobriety

Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS), also known as Save Our Selves, was a non-profit network of autonomous addiction recovery groups. The program stressed the need to place the highest priority on sobriety and used mutual support to assist members in achieving this goal. The Suggested Guidelines for Sobriety emphasized rational decision-making and are not religious or spiritual in nature. SOS represented an alternative to spiritually based addiction recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). SOS members could also attend AA meetings, but SOS did not view spirituality or surrendering to a Higher Power as being necessary to maintain abstinence.