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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... moderate.   BB p.112, To Wives   Go to page 112 in the Big Book
Show him you have confidence in his power to stop or moderate.


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... moderate.   BB p.112, To Wives   Go to page 112 in the Big Book
If you act upon these principles, your husband may stop or moderate.


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... moderate, although he may find it difficult ...   BB p.21, There Is A Solution   Go to page 21 in the Big Book
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor -- becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.


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... moderate, because their brains and bodies have ...   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
That may be true of certain nonalcoholic people who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not been damaged as ours were.


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... moderate drinker; he may or may not ...   BB p.21, There Is A Solution   Go to page 21 in the Big Book
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.


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... moderate drinker or a teetotaler, you may ...   BB p.139, To Employers   Go to page 139 in the Big Book
Whether you are a hard drinker, a moderate drinker or a teetotaler, you may have some pretty strong opinions, perhaps prejudices.


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... moderate drinker, you can take your liquor ...   BB p.139, To Employers   Go to page 139 in the Big Book
As a moderate drinker, you can take your liquor or leave it alone.


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Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving ...   BB p.20, There Is A Solution   Go to page 20 in the Big Book
Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving up liquor entirely if they have good reason for it.


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... moderate or stop altogether, and some will ...   BB p.109, To Wives   Go to page 109 in the Big Book
Some will moderate or stop altogether, and some will not.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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