From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... chronic alcoholic.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
2.
... chronic alcoholics
are doomed.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Much has been written pro and con, but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics are doomed.
3.
... chronic alcoholics
back from the gates of ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
4.
... chronic alcoholics
is a manifestation of an ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these
chronic alcoholics is a
manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is
limited to this class and
never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
5.
... chronic alcoholism.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
6.
... chronic backslider,
only to be told: "How ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.
7.
... chronic pain
of envy or to be ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
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