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... doses of sedatives to make it possible ...   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.


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... doses of sedatives to quiet the jitters, ...   BB p.176, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 176 in the Big Book
Most of the time, therefore, I did not take the morning drink which I craved so badly, but instead would fill up on large doses of sedatives to quiet the jitters, which distressed me terribly.


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