Dedicated to Providing Support, Fellowship, and Resources for Recovering Health Professionals Worldwide

Welcome to the IDAA website. IDAA is a group of approximately 6000 recovering health care professionals of doctorate level who help one another achieve and maintain sobriety from addictions.

IDAA strongly supports mainstream AA as the basis for everyone's recovery program and that needs to be first and foremost. We are not terminally unique! However, specific issues do arise for healthcare professionals and impaired doctors that are hard to deal with in regular AA meetings. Many of these issues are explored in the safe environment of the IDAA annual meetings and in the online email-based meetings on this website. There are no dues or fees for membership, just the desire to stay sober and off mood-altering drugs.

This website provides information and resources for prospective and current members along with their family and friends -- information on the organization and links to other resources for recovery. The IDAA HelpLine is a network of volunteer "contacts" available to doctors seeking another doctor to talk with about their alcohol and/or drugs problems. These doctor contacts also will help IDAA members find meetings when visiting in the local area.

You are encouraged to actively participate in making this a useful and interesting website to visit.

Sign up as a new member or change your membership information. Check out the Annual IDAA Meetings and register online for them on their websites. There are also Other Meetings, both International and US based, of interest to health professionals in recovery.

Members who register or update their registration information online also have access to the Email Recovery Meetings (listgroups), the Doctors' Recovery Meeting Locator, and IDAA Newsletter Archives. Read the Community Bulletin Board for the latest news, then leave your own announcement or comment. There is an Employment Opportunities page where IDAA members interested in hiring other recovering health professionals may announce available positions -- if you have or know of an employment opportunity please make that known to other members. If you are looking for employment, check this area periodically for new listings.

Find out how to sign up for these "Members Only" areas here.

This is an evolving effort, please come back frequently and stay involved with your recovering community.