Alcholics Anonymous is a fellowship in Biggar, Saskatchewan to assist people to stop drinking alcohol through a twelve step program, meetings and the AA program. The Biggar AA group is part of District 4 in Area 91 and meets every Sunday and Wednesday evening in the United Church basement. A meeting is usually headed by a chairman and after a period of reflection, a section of the Alcoholics Anonymous "The Big Book" is read, and then announcements commence. Speakers may attend the meetings sharing topics of interest to the group. The main purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous worldwide is sobriety and providing support to others to abstain from drinking and recover from alcoholism.

Premier Scott placed the province of Saskatchewan under a prohibition law, and the sale of alcohol was prohibited in 1915 resulting in stills and bootlegging. The Saskatchewan government repealed the prohibition and temperance laws in 1925. The AA foundation was founded in the late 1930s in the United States which first developed the twelve step program, the concept of a spiritual cure and abstinence one day at a time. .James Calder began the first Alcoholics Anonymous groups in Saskatchewan. He also pressured the province to address alcoholism and inaugurated the Bureau of Alcoholism in 1953 which later was known as the Saskatchewan Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.

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