From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... presents a
Lasker Group Award for 1951 ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"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."
2.
... presents additional
questions which we shall try ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
3.
... presents an
explicit view of the principles ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
It presents an explicit view of the principles by
which A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.
4.
... presents difficulty,
re-reading chapters two and three, ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might
be worth while.
5.
... presents his
stage character.
BB p.73,
Into Action
6.
... presents itself,
at some point we will ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
But if no such opportunity presents itself, at some point we will want to summon all our courage, head straight for the person concerned, and lay our cards on the table.
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