From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... drunkenness and
dissolution are not penalties inflicted ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by
people in authority;
they result from his personal disobedience
to spiritual principles.
2.
... drunkenness, kept
me out of those scrapes.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty
to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.
3.
... drunkenness would
make a skeptic out of ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
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