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This article argues for the urgent decolonization of twelve-step recovery. Highlighting the whiteness of many mainstream recovery rooms, the author discusses the impact of racial trauma and systemic oppression on the sobriety of melanated individuals, proposing that if the voices of people of the global majority can be brought into consciousness then this may create a more inclusive, holistic and liberating path to healing for everyone.