From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HANGOVER occurs
8 times
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1.
... hangover.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
I could see he had an
awful hangover.
2.
... hangover.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
3.
... hangover.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
We often
need it to
carry green recruits through a
severe hangover.
4.
... hangover because
he drank heavily yesterday, he ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
When a
drunk has a
terrific hangover because he
drank heavily yesterday, he cannot
live
well
today.
5.
... hangover mornings
and sworn that I'd never ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
I've
prayed to
God on
hangover mornings and
sworn that I'd
never touch another
drop but by
nine o'clock I'd be
boiled as an
owl."
6.
... hangover mornings
when we alternated between reviling ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
This will be a very
different occasion, and in
sharp contrast with those
hangover
mornings when we
alternated between
reviling ourselves and
blaming the
family (and
everyone else) for our
troubles.
7.
... hangover, the
direct result of yesterday's and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the
emotional hangover, the
direct result of
yesterday's and
sometimes
today's
excesses of
negative emotion --
anger,
fear,
jealousy, and the like.
8.
... hangover which
we all experience whether we ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But there is another
kind of
hangover which we all
experience whether we are
drinking or not.
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