From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... insane.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
2.
... insane.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
However intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved,
we have been strangely insane.
3.
... insane idea
won out.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... insane urge
that condemned us to go ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an
allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
5.
... insane when
drunk.
BB p.110,
To Wives
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