Chat Room News

On October 18, 1997, About.com (then called The Mining Co.) opened chat rooms for each of its Guide sites. It wasn't long before the open Alcoholism Recovery chat room (Room 1) became active 24 hours a day.

Over the years, other chat rooms were added for online meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon Family Groups, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Narcotic Anonymous and other 12 step groups.

In February 2004, About.com closed all of its chat rooms and the Alcoholism site chat rooms were moved to StepChat.com. All of the resources associated with the chat rooms were also moved to StepChat.com.

Here are links to those resources:

• List of Chat Rooms
  
• Chat Meeting Schedule
  
• Meeting Service Files
  
• Copy-Paste Help

The "open" chat rooms are available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Online meetings are conducted during scheduled meeting times in the individual chat meeting rooms. Here is the schedule for various meetings:

• Alcoholics Anonymous
  
• Al-Anon Family Groups
  
• Adult Children of Alcoholics
  
• Narcotics Anonymous
  
• Other 12 Step Groups

The chat rooms are password protected for security reasons. To join any of the rooms, sign up to get a password.