From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... bottle.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
2.
... bottle.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... bottle and
extinction.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often
been led to the bottle and extinction.
4.
... bottle and
the blackout.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have
gone to the other extreme and settled for the
bottle and the blackout.
5.
... bottle cut
us down.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
6.
... bottle he
misplaced the night before.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
7.
... bottle of
beer the next morning.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
8.
... bottle of
gin near the head of ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
9.
... bottle of
ginger ale before him?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Of course he couldn't drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him?
10.
... bottle of
scotch and ruin everything!
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
11.
... bottle was
always our solution.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
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