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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ABSTINENCE occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... abstinence.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
The only
relief we have to
suggest is
entire abstinence.
2.
... abstinence.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Unlike most of our
crowd, I
did not
get over my
craving for
liquor much during the
first two and
one-
half years of
abstinence.
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