From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... class.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
2.
... class.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going
to believe they are in that class.
3.
... class alcoholic
prospect.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
4.
... class, alcoholics
are energetic people.
BB p.146,
To Employers
5.
... class and
never occurs in the average ...
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.
6.
... class are
now among our members.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
7.
... class of
people in the world ever ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
8.
... class of
people we termed 'pure alcoholics.'
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
"We were resolved to admit nobody to A.A. but that hypothetical
class of people we termed 'pure alcoholics.'
9.
... class of
therapy.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from
our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.
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