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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... normal activities
-- clubs, civic duties, sports.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
2.
... normal drinker
out of an alcoholic.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Physicians who are
familiar with
alcoholism agree there is
no such thing as
making a
normal drinker out of an
alcoholic.
3.
Normal drinkers
are not so affected, nor ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
Normal drinkers are not so
affected, nor can they
understand the
aberrations of the
alcoholic.
4.
... normal folks,
drinking means conviviality, companionship and ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
5.
... normal functioning
of the will power.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
6.
... normal in
every respect except in the ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Then there are
types entirely normal in every
respect except in the
effect alcohol has upon
them.
7.
... normal individual,
your chances are good at ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
If your
husband is
otherwise a
normal individual, your
chances
are
good at this
stage.
8.
... normal men,
but for alcoholics these things ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
They may be the
dubious luxury of
normal men, but for
alcoholics
these things are
poison.
9.
... normal nature
but little.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
10.
... normal one.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
To them, their
alcoholic life seems the only
normal one.
11.
... normal people.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
12.
... normal people
are getting from self-sufficiency.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his
own image in the
mirror be too
awful to
contemplate (and it usually is), he might
first take a
look at the
results normal people are
getting from
self-
sufficiency.
13.
... normal person
wants, for example, to eat, ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Every
normal person wants, for
example, to
eat, to
reproduce, to be
somebody in the
society of his
fellows.
14.
... normal salesmen.
BB p.150,
To Employers
15.
... normal so
far as we can see, ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
He is an
intelligent man,
normal so far as we can see,
except for a
nervous disposition.
16.
... normal, to
cut it out.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
You would
expect him, if he were
normal, to
cut it out.
17.
... normal, will
do incredible things.
BB p.141,
To Employers
When
drinking, or
getting over a
bout, an
alcoholic, sometimes the
model of
honesty when
normal, will do
incredible
things.
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