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... potential alcoholic.   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
Though you may be able to stop for a considerable period, you may yet be a potential alcoholic.


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Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly ...   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course.


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... potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will ...   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.

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... potential alcoholics.   12&12 p.23, Step One
As this trend grew, they were joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics.


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... potential alcoholics.   BB p.149, To Employers   Go to page 149 in the Big Book
That company may harbor many actual or potential alcoholics.


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... potential alcoholics among young people everywhere.   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
We, who are familiar with the symptoms, see large numbers of potential alcoholics among young people everywhere.


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... potential alcoholics in the world, we have ...   BB xxi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
So far, upon the total problem of several million actual and potential alcoholics in the world, we have made only a scratch.


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Potential female alcoholics often turn into the ...   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.

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... potential financial insecurity of every human being ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity of every human being in the world.


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... potential for the myriad other ills of ...   BB p.571(573), Appendix IV, The Lasker Award   Display entire Appendix IV
"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."


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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