From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... illness.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... illness.
BB p.115,
To Wives
While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.
3.
... illness.
BB p.139,
To Employers
4.
... illness.
BB p.142,
To Employers
5.
... Illness.")
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the
Illness.")
6.
... illness, a
fatal malady.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
7.
... illness, for
with it there goes annihilation ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.
8.
... illness --
involves those about us in a ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
An illness of this sort -- and
we have come to believe it
an illness -- involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.
9.
... illness of
this sort -- and we have ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
An illness of this sort -- and
we have come to believe it
an illness -- involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.
10.
... illness over
which we could not possibly ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we could
not possibly have had any
power.
11.
... illness, suicide
-- these calamities in his immediate ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
12.
... illness that
we have in our sponsors?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same kind of
confidence and faith in
these people who have been infected and sometimes
crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?
13.
... illness, the
social stigma associated with this ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness,
the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
14.
... illness, we
might have behaved differently.
BB p.107,
To Wives
15.
... illness which
only a spiritual experience will ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness
which only a spiritual experience will conquer.
16.
... illness with
little complaint, and often in ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have seen A.A.'s suffer lingering and fatal illness with little complaint, and often in good cheer.
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