From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... abused it
so frightfully that it was ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but
I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it
so frightfully that it was withdrawn.
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