From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... avail.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a certain point in the
drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into
a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
2.
... avail nothing.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
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