At The Hotel Belvedere on October 17, 2000, eighty-eight people, including about thirty MPS members, attended a one-man show dramatizing the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and the beginning of the "Twelve Step program to recovery." Bill McNiff portrayed "Bill W." in a two- act play set in New York in 1950. The play was written eleven years ago, and Bill stated,, "It's nothing more than one person passing something on to another."

In the discussion that followed, MPS member Eric Strain, M.D. talked about the organizational and spiritual elements that combined the practical with the mystical. He concluded, "We need to learn how to bring its mystical elements into the light of psychiatry."

Joe P. then told the audience he had been sober for twenty years. He pointed out that prior to AA, people with this disorder had been powerless against alcoholism's downward spiral.

"Bit by bit," Joe P. said, "Working with the twelve steps has enabled me to build the life I have today…. It's one day at a time. The people at AA loved me until I could love myself."

Perhaps it was best summed up by Bill, the actor who had presented the play, when he noted that even people in prison tell AA, "Please keep it up. We need you desperately."