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1.
... drinking.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
2.
... drinking.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
He
plans various ways of
drinking.
3.
... drinking.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
You may
already have
asked
yourself why it is that all
of us
became so
very ill from
drinking.
4.
... drinking.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
5.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
We
alcoholics are
men and
women who have
lost the
ability to
control our
drinking.
6.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
7.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
Though there is
no way of
proving it, we
believe that
early in our
drinking careers most of us could
have
stopped drinking.
8.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
A
man of
thirty was
doing a
great deal of
spree drinking.
9.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.35
His
family was
re-
assembled, and he
began to
work as a
salesman for the
business he had
lost through drinking.
10.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
I had
no intention of
drinking.
11.
... drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
Still no thought of
drinking.
12.
... drinking.
BB
Into Action, p.72
The
best reason first: If we
skip this
vital step, we may not
overcome drinking.
13.
... drinking.
BB
Into Action, p.73
He is
under constant fear and
tension -- that
makes for
more drinking.
14.
... drinking.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
After a
while,
turn the
talk to some
phase of
drinking.
15.
... drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.109
He
often gets entirely out of
hand when
drinking.
16.
... drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.110
17.
... drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.111
Our
next thought is that you
should
never tell him what he
must do about his
drinking.
18.
... drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.115
Unless they
actually need protection from their
father, it is
best not to
take sides in
any argument he has with them
while drinking.
19.
... drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.116
20.
... drinking.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
Their
young minds were
impressionable while he
was
drinking.
21.
... drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.138
But I'm
sure this
man is
done drinking.
22.
... drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.139
Whenever you
want to, you
control your
drinking.
23.
... drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.141
This is not to
say that all
alcoholics are
honest and
upright when not
drinking.
24.
... drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.148
He
remarked: "I'm
mighty
glad you
fellows got over your
drinking.
25.
... drinking.
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
But not so with us in
those last days of
heavy drinking.
26.
... drinking.
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
He had, of
course, the
familiar alcoholic obsession that
few knew of his
drinking.
27.
... drinking.
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
28.
... drinking.
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
Goes off his
head completely when he's
drinking.
29.
... drinking.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Therefore it would
make no great difference,
even if I should
do some
drinking.
30.
... drinking.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
31.
... drinking."
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
32.
... drinking.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
33.
... drinking.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We
shall claim that our
serious character defects, if we
think we have
any at all, have been
caused chiefly by
excessive drinking.
34.
... drinking.
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
Our
reputations hadn't
suffered,
because we were
certain few knew of our
drinking.
35.
... drinking.
12&12
Step Nine, pp.83-84
36.
... drinking."
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
"The only
requirement for
A.A. membership is a
desire to
stop drinking."
37.
... drinking."
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
38.
... drinking.
Grapevine
Preamble
The only
requirement for
membership is a
desire to
stop drinking.
39.
... drinking abruptly.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
40.
... drinking again.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The
broker had
gone to
Akron on a
business venture which had
collapsed,
leaving him
greatly in
fear that he might
start drinking again.
41.
... drinking again,
and all would be lost ...
BB
Into Action, p.80
He
saw that he had to
place the
outcome in
God's
hands or he would
soon start drinking again, and all would be
lost anyhow.
42.
... drinking alone,
never drinking in the morning, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
43.
... drinking altogether.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
He
made up his
mind to
quit drinking altogether.
44.
... drinking always
caused him.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
45.
... drinking and
abuse if he really wants ...
BB
To Wives, p.108
Especially when he has
before him a
way to
stop his
drinking and
abuse if he
really wants to
pay the
price.
46.
... drinking and
alcoholism.
12&12
Step Two, p.33
They are
abetted in this
blindness by a
world which
does not
understand the
difference between sane drinking and
alcoholism.
47.
... drinking, and
for all kinds of crazy ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
For most of us,
self-
justification was the
maker of
excuses;
excuses, of
course, for
drinking, and for all
kinds of
crazy and
damaging conduct.
48.
... drinking and
his failure at life; that ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
49.
... drinking, and
I was forty pounds under ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
I could
eat little or
nothing when
drinking, and I was
forty pounds under weight.
50.
... drinking, and
no human being could seem ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
I
simply couldn't
stop drinking, and
no human being could
seem to do the
job for me.
51.
... drinking and
padding my expense account -- self ...
BB
How It Works, p.65
52.
... drinking, and
that it must stop.
BB
To Employers, p.141
State that you
know about his
drinking, and that it
must stop.
53.
... drinking, and
then by an allergy of ...
12&12
Step One, p.22
54.
... drinking and
used a great deal more ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
This had
little effect
however for I
kept on
drinking
and
used a
great deal more hard liquor than in
former years.
55.
... drinking, and
very seldom did I receive ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
56.
... drinking and
we certainly do not intend ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
We have not
lost everything in
life through drinking and we
certainly do not
intend to.
57.
... drinking, and
who have been most affected ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
We
shall at
once think of a
few people who
know all about our
drinking, and who have been most
affected by it.
58.
... drinking and
you want to help him, ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
He
wants to
quit drinking and you
want to
help him,
even if it be only a
matter of
good business.
59.
... drinking any
good, for not one drinker ...
BB
Working With Others, p.103
We would not
even do the
cause
of
temperate drinking any good, for not
one drinker in a
thousand likes to be
told anything about
alcohol by
one who
hates it.
60.
... drinking, are
miracles of mental health.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
We, who have
recovered from
serious drinking, are
miracles of
mental health.
61.
... drinking as
an institution.
BB
Working With Others, p.103
62.
... drinking as
intensive work with other alcoholics.
BB
Working With Others, p.89
63.
... drinking assumed
more serious proportions, continuing all ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.3
64.
... drinking at
least a case and a ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
It was not
long before I was
drinking at
least a
case and a
half a
day.
65.
... drinking, bearing
in mind meanwhile what we ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
Why don't you
try some
more controlled drinking,
bearing in
mind meanwhile what we have
told you about
alcoholism?"
66.
... drinking became
so much worse that the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
67.
... Drinking beer
only, limiting the number of ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
68.
... drinking before
your fire.
BB
To Wives, p.110
69.
... drinking behavior
which our friends probably know ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
70.
... drinking both
gin and sedative.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
71.
... drinking bout.
BB
Working With Others, p.90
They should
wait for the
end of
his
next drinking bout.
72.
... drinking bout
creates.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
73.
... drinking bouts
and tells you he wants ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
74.
... drinking can
do the right-about-face and drink ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
If
anyone who is
showing inability to
control his
drinking can do the
right-about-
face and
drink like a
gentleman, our
hats are off to
him.
75.
... drinking can
dream of taking.
12&12
Step One, p.24
76.
... drinking career
he begins to lose all ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
He may
start off as a
moderate drinker; he may or
may not
become a
continuous hard drinker; but at some
stage of
his
drinking career he
begins to
lose all
control of his
liquor consumption,
once he
starts to
drink.
77.
... drinking career
of almost every alcoholic has ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
78.
... drinking career
up to the time you ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
If he is not
communicative,
give him a
sketch of your
drinking career up to the
time you
quit.
79.
... drinking careers.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
These were
reefs upon which
many of us
came to
shipwreck during our
drinking careers.
80.
... drinking careers
have been characterized by countless ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
81.
... drinking careers
most of us could have ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
Though there is
no way of
proving it, we
believe that
early in our
drinking careers most of us could
have
stopped drinking.
82.
... drinking caught
up with me again and ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
But
drinking caught up with me
again and my
generous friend had to
let me
go.
83.
... Drinking cold
small beer. A good soldier ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.1
84.
... drinking days.
12&12
Step Four, p.46
85.
... drinking does
complicate sex relations in the ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
But
drinking does
complicate sex relations in the
home.
86.
... drinking, don't
waste time trying to persuade ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
If he does not
want to
stop
drinking, don't
waste time trying to
persuade him.
87.
... drinking during
business hours, drinking only at ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
88.
... drinking even
then was no mere habit, ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
By
going back in our
own drinking histories, we could
show that
years before we
realized it we were
out of
control, that our
drinking even then was
no mere habit, that it was
indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
89.
... drinking, even
with your own parents.
BB
To Wives, p.114
You
avoid the
subject of
drinking,
even with your
own parents.
90.
... drinking every
day and every night.
BB
Bill's Story, p.3
91.
... drinking experience
you can be uniquely useful ...
BB
Working With Others, p.89
Ministers and
doctors
are
competent and you can
learn much from them if you
wish, but it
happens that
because of your
own drinking experience you can be
uniquely useful to
other alcoholics.
92.
... drinking experiences.
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
For an
hour, the
two friends told him about their
drinking experiences.
93.
... drinking experiences
and recoveries.
12&12
Foreword, p.17
94.
... drinking exploits.
BB
To Employers, p.145
95.
... drinking foolishly
and heavily at the present ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
96.
... drinking for
a few months, you may ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
97.
... drinking for
a while, making several trips ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
98.
... drinking for
good.
BB
To Wives, p.112
But
after his
next binge,
ask him if he would
really like to
get over drinking for
good.
99.
... drinking, for
he may be angry.
BB
To Wives, p.113
But don't
remind him of this
after he has been
drinking, for he
may be
angry.
100.
... drinking for
long.
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
When our
friend related his
experience, the
man agreed that
no amount of
will power he might
muster could
stop his
drinking for
long.
101.
... drinking, for
obviously this is the crux ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.35
So we
shall describe some
of the
mental states that
precede a
relapse into
drinking, for
obviously this is
the
crux of the
problem.
102.
... drinking forever.
BB
To Wives, p.105
Our
men have
sworn great solemn oaths that they were
through
drinking forever.
103.
... drinking forever.
BB
To Wives, p.116
It may
convince your
husband he
wants to
stop drinking forever.
104.
... drinking forever?
BB
To Employers, p.142
105.
... drinking fraternity,
but not in the eyes ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
I was
graduated "
summa cum laude" in the
eyes of the
drinking fraternity, but not in the
eyes of the
Dean.
106.
... drinking game,
commence to describe yourself as ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
When he
sees you
know all about
the
drinking game,
commence to
describe yourself as an
alcoholic.
107.
... drinking got
bad and people began to ...
12&12
Step Five, p.57
Even before our
drinking got bad
and
people began to
cut us off,
nearly all of us
suffered the
feeling that we
didn't
quite belong.
108.
... drinking habits.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
109.
... drinking habits,
symptoms, and experiences to encourage ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
110.
... drinking had
become much worse, money was ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
When our
drinking had
become
much worse,
money was only an
urgent requirement which could
supply us with the
next drink and the
temporary comfort of
oblivion it
brought.
111.
... drinking had
to come before sobriety, and ...
12&12
Step Ten, pp.93-94
How
heartily we
A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we
know that
the
pains of
drinking had to
come before sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
112.
... drinking has
aggravated the defects of others.
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
Moreover, it is
usually a
fact that our
behavior when
drinking has
aggravated
the
defects of
others.
113.
... drinking has
made us slow to pay.
BB
Into Action, p.78
Our
drinking has
made us
slow to
pay.
114.
... drinking has
placed him on the wrong ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
Dad may
feel that for
years his
drinking has
placed him on the
wrong side of
every argument, but that
now he has
become a
superior person with
God on his
side.
115.
... drinking have
been repaired in four.
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
116.
... drinking, he
accepted a sum of money ...
BB
Into Action, p.80
117.
... drinking, he
had not paid alimony to ...
BB
Into Action, p.79
Because of
resentment
and
drinking, he had not
paid alimony to his
first wife.
118.
... drinking, he
had placed his toe on ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
After two weeks of
drinking, he had
placed his
toe on the
trigger of a
loaded shotgun -- the
barrel was in
his
mouth.
119.
... drinking; he's
my friend; she's a gossip ...
BB
How It Works, p.65
120.
... drinking histories,
we could show that years ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
By
going back in our
own drinking histories, we could
show that
years before we
realized it we were
out of
control, that our
drinking even then was
no mere habit, that it was
indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
121.
... drinking, I
made up my mind that ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
122.
... drinking, I
think you ought to resign."
BB
To Employers, p.148
But if you cannot or
will not
stop drinking, I
think you
ought to
resign."
123.
... drinking, if
we have a legitimate reason ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
So our
rule is not to
avoid a
place where there is
drinking,
if we have a
legitimate reason for
being there.
124.
... drinking in
my kitchen.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
Near the
end of that
bleak November, I
sat drinking in my
kitchen.
125.
... drinking in
the morning, drinking only at ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
126.
... drinking is
but a beginning.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.19
We
feel that
elimination
of our
drinking is but a
beginning.
127.
... drinking is
but the first step away ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
128.
... drinking is
necessary in his business.
BB
To Wives, p.109
He is
positive he can
handle his
liquor, that it does
him
no harm, that
drinking is
necessary in his
business.
129.
... drinking is
not going to spoil your ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
Be
determined that your
husband's
drinking is not
going to
spoil your
relations with your
children or your
friends.
130.
... drinking is
of absolutely no avail.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
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.
131.
... drinking is
stopped the man tends to ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
132.
... drinking is
the great obsession of every ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
133.
Drinking isolates
most homes from the outside ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
Drinking isolates most
homes from the
outside world.
134.
... drinking). Its
headquarters address is 1600 Corporate ...
12&12
Step Twelve (Note), p.118
135.
... drinking just
because we were maladjusted to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
It did not
satisfy us to be
told that we could not
control
our
drinking just because we were
maladjusted to
life, that we
were in
full flight from
reality, or were
outright mental defectives.
136.
... drinking liquor
for good and all, and ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
But if you
really and
truly
want to
quit drinking liquor for
good and all, and
sincerely feel that you
must have some
help, we
know that we have an
answer for you.
137.
... drinking many
times isolates the wife of ...
BB
To Wives, p.119
It is
probably true that you
and your
husband have been
living too
much alone, for
drinking many times isolates the
wife of an
alcoholic.
138.
... drinking many
years beyond the point where ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
As we
look back, we
feel we had
gone on
drinking many years beyond the
point where we could
quit on our
will power.
139.
... drinking may
be constant or it may ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
His
drinking may be
constant
or it may be
heavy only on
certain occasions.
140.
... drinking means
conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination.
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
141.
Drinking occasionally,
and understanding your own reactions, ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
142.
... drinking of
every alcoholic, he passes into ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
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.
143.
... drinking on
the basis of self-knowledge.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
144.
... drinking only
a few years, but they ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a
few years, but they
found themselves as
helpless as
those who had been
drinking twenty years.
145.
... drinking only
at home, never having it ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
146.
... drinking only
at parties, switching from scotch ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
147.
... drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the
methods
we have
tried:
Drinking beer only,
limiting the
number of
drinks,
never drinking alone,
never drinking in the
morning,
drinking only at
home,
never having it in the
house,
never drinking during business hours,
drinking only at
parties,
switching from
scotch to
brandy,
drinking only
natural wines,
agreeing to
resign if
ever drunk on the
job,
taking a
trip, not
taking a
trip,
swearing off
forever (with
and
without a
solemn oath),
taking more physical exercise,
reading inspirational books,
going to
health farms and
sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to
asylums --
we could
increase the
list
ad infinitum.
148.
... drinking, or
getting over a bout, an ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
149.
... drinking or
is recovering in A.A. A ...
BB
To Wives (Note), p.104
150.
... drinking, or
lack of it.
BB
To Employers, p.139
If you
desire to
help it might
be
well to
disregard your
own drinking, or
lack of it.
151.
... drinking or
not?
BB
To Employers, p.147
Do you
want to
stop drinking or not?
152.
... drinking or
not.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
153.
... drinking or
not.
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
But there is
another kind of
hangover which we all
experience whether we are
drinking or not.
154.
... drinking, or
who are just getting over ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
155.
... drinking ourselves
into forgetfulness or had plunged ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
156.
... drinking placed
him constantly in the wrong.
BB
The Family Afterward, pp.130-131
Even when he
wanted to
assert himself he could not,
for his
drinking placed him
constantly in the
wrong.
157.
... drinking problem.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.19
158.
... drinking problem,
we hope that you may ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "
Yes, that
happened to me"; or,
more important, "
Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "
Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
159.
... drinking problem,
what character defects contributed to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
160.
... drinking resembles
his normal nature but little.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
161.
... drinking scenes;
we must not go into ...
BB
Working With Others, pp.100-101
People have
said we
must not
go where
liquor is
served; we
must not have it in our
homes; we
must shun friends who
drink; we
must avoid moving pictures which
show drinking scenes; we
must not
go into
bars; our
friends must hide their
bottles if we
go to their
houses; we
mustn't think or be
reminded about
alcohol at
all.
162.
... drinking seemed
to be a major extra-curricular ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
163.
... drinking, sighing
about the good old days.
BB
Working With Others, p.102
Why sit with a
long face in
places where there is
drinking,
sighing about the
good old days.
164.
... drinking six
weeks before.
BB
To Employers, p.137
I had
discharged him for
drinking six weeks before.
165.
... drinking so
long as we place dependence ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
166.
... drinking societies,
and soon became one of ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
167.
... drinking, tell
him that possibly he can ...
BB
Working With Others, p.92
If he
sticks to the
idea that
he can
still control his
drinking,
tell him that
possibly he can -- if he is not too
alcoholic.
168.
... drinking that
only an act of Providence ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
It is
truly awful to
admit that,
glass in
hand, we have
warped our
minds into
such an
obsession for
destructive drinking that
only an
act of
Providence
can
remove it from us.
169.
... drinking their
morning coffee.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
170.
... drinking, there
must be no reservation of ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
171.
... drinking; they
usually know it anyway, whether ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
Telling them what we are
trying to do, we
make no bones about our
drinking; they
usually know it
anyway,
whether we
think so or not.
172.
... drinking, they
were strangers.
BB
To Wives, p.107
When
drinking, they were
strangers.
173.
... drinking, though
he was brilliant, alert, and ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
I had been
obliged to
discharge him for
drinking,
though he was
brilliant,
alert, and
one of the
best organizers I have
ever known.
174.
... drinking time,
we acted as if the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
175.
... drinking to
escape; they were drinking to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
These
men were not
drinking to
escape; they were
drinking to
overcome a
craving beyond their
mental control.
176.
... drinking to
overcome a craving beyond their ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
These
men were not
drinking to
escape; they were
drinking to
overcome a
craving beyond their
mental control.
177.
... drinking twenty
years.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a
few years, but they
found themselves as
helpless as
those who had been
drinking twenty years.
178.
... drinking until
he was thirty-five.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.35
He did
no drinking until he was
thirty-
five.
179.
... drinking until
we have done our utmost ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
180.
... drinking was
not yet continuous, it disturbed ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.2
Though my
drinking was not
yet continuous, it
disturbed my
wife.
181.
... drinking we
never hurt anybody but ourselves.
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
We
clung to the
claim that
when
drinking we
never hurt anybody but
ourselves.
182.
... drinking we
occasionally remained sober for a ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
183.
... drinking we
were sometimes bad actors.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
184.
... drinking went
out of hand and we ...
12&12
Step Four, p.47
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions and
found that we
couldn't to our
entire satisfaction, our
drinking
went out of
hand and we
became alcoholics.
185.
... drinking were
easily pushed aside in favor ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could
take whiskey if only he
mixed it
with
milk!
186.
... drinking, what
need is there for a ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
If we were
pretty nice people all
along,
except for our
drinking, what
need is there for a
moral inventory now that we are
sober?
187.
... drinking, who
exhibited splendid judgment and determination ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
188.
... drinking, who
had had most all the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a
man who had
experienced many years of
frightful drinking, who had had most all the
drunkard's
experiences
known to
man, but who had been
cured by the
very means I had been
trying to
employ, that is to
say the
spiritual approach.
189.
... drinking, who
had no excuse for drinking, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
190.
... drinking will
be used politically.
BB
To Employers, p.145
191.
... drinking will
require a transformation of thought ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
192.
... drinking with
him yourself when he doesn't ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
Perhaps you
enjoy drinking with him
yourself when he
doesn't
go too
far.
193.
... drinking with
much greater earnestness than I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
194.
... drinking without
developing the phenomenon of craving.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
195.
... drinking wrought
all kinds of damage that ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
Let them
remember that his
drinking wrought all
kinds of
damage that may
take long to
repair.
196.
... drinking, you
have little control over the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
If, when you
honestly want
to, you
find you cannot
quit entirely, or if when
drinking,
you have
little control over the
amount you
take, you are
probably alcoholic.
197.
... drinking, you
need not be alarmed.
BB
To Wives, p.120
If you are
satisfied he
really wants to
get over drinking, you
need not be
alarmed.
198.
... drinking, you
were withdrawing from life little ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
While you were
drinking, you
were
withdrawing from
life little by
little.
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