of or relating to a method of treatment for addiction which consists of twelve stages and stresses the need for patients to acknowledge their problem and to take personal responsibility for it
Examples of 'twelve-step' in a sentence
twelve-step
There should be support groups, like a twelve-step programme, for young people whohate being young.
Hilary Mantel LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES (2003)
But I also don't believe that joining a twelve-step programme is necessarily going to crack Lisa from Luton's co-dependency problem.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2003)
I got into a twelve-step programme then and I joined AA, and I started to see this counsellor fellow.