It’s time to make amends. Success addicts can learn a thing or two about recovery from alcoholics. Those who have followed the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous know that recovery is not possible without step 9: “[Make] direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Alcoholics in recovery make a list of people they have hurt and neglected due to their addiction; they must make amends with each person on the list, if possible.