From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INSANITY occurs
9 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... insanity.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Rumor had it that he had been
committed for
alcoholic
insanity.
2.
... insanity.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Whatever the
precise definition of the
word may
be, we call this
plain insanity.
3.
... insanity.
BB p.107,
To Wives
Sometimes there were
screaming delirium and
insanity.
4.
... insanity, fatal
illness, suicide -- these calamities in ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
5.
... insanity of
alcohol returns and we drink ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
The
insanity of
alcohol returns and we
drink again.
6.
... insanity of
that first drink, and on ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Then
came the
insidious
insanity of that
first drink, and on
Armistice Day 1934, I was off again.
7.
... insanity or
death.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Many
pursue it into the
gates of
insanity or
death.
8.
... insanity --
that first drink.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Again it was the
old,
insidious insanity -- that
first drink.
9.
... insanity which
precedes the first drink, but ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I rather
appreciated your
ideas about the
subtle insanity which
precedes the
first drink, but I was
confident it could not
happen to me after what I had
learned.
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