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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   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.


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... drunkenness would make a skeptic out of ...   BB p.83, Into Action   Go to page 83 in the Big Book
We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone.


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