From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... problem.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
2.
... problem.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
3.
... problem.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
He made a beginning, we
have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol
problem.
4.
... problem.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
5.
... problem.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
He shouts that if his partner would treat him better, and his wife would leave him alone, he'd soon solve his alcohol problem.
6.
... problem.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
7.
... problem.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
8.
... problem.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
No individuals have been
more buffeted by such emotional gusts than those A.A.'s bold enough to accept employment with outside
agencies dealing with
the alcohol problem.
9.
... problem.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
10.
... problem.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
11.
... problem.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
So we shall describe some
of the mental states that
precede a relapse into
drinking, for obviously this is the crux
of the problem.
12.
... problem.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
13.
... problem.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself
which will solve your problem.
14.
... problem.
BB p.69,
How It Works
15.
... problem.
BB p.74,
Into Action
16.
... problem.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would
escape the alcohol problem.
17.
... problem.
BB p.111,
To Wives
18.
... problem.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
19.
... problem.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
20.
... problem.
BB p.139,
To Employers
21.
... problem.
BB p.144,
To Employers
To return to the subject
matter of this book: It contains full suggestions by which the employee may solve his problem.
22.
... problem."
BB p.149,
To Employers
23.
... problem.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My wife became deeply interested, and it
was her interest that sustained mine, though I at no time sensed that it might be an
answer to my liquor problem.
24.
... problem, alcoholism
... In emphasizing alcoholism as an ...
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."
25.
... problem, along
with everything else, in God's ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
26.
... problem and
help others to recover from ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength
and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
27.
... problem and
will no longer be misled ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
28.
... problem and
you and your husband are ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
After all, your family is
reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband
are working together toward an undreamed-of future.
29.
... problem as
a whole.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Though the aggregate of
recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole.
30.
... problem as
we see it.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
31.
... problem be
attacked on the flank rather ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
Good generalship may decide that the problem be attacked on the flank rather than risk a face-to-face combat.
32.
... problem, but
we shall be of little ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous
will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic
problem, but we shall be of
little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
33.
... problem by
the method of substitution.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
34.
... problem can
be seen as a case ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
35.
... problem drinker
who has found this solution, ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly
armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.
36.
... problem drinker
will be lessened.
BB p.115,
To Wives
37.
... problem drinkers.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When A.A. was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists
and doctors made an exhaustive study of a good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers.
38.
... problem drinkers.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
39.
... problem drinkers
-- alcoholics -- should not drink at ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed,
not misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not drink at all.
40.
... problem drinkers
as others seldom can.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Just as firmly bound by obligation are
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
41.
... "problem drinkers,"
but cannot endure the suggestion ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers," but cannot endure the suggestion
that they are in fact mentally ill.
42.
... problem drinkers,
depend upon our constant thought ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
43.
... problem drinkers
of us in the first ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism
once again.
44.
... problem drinkers,
we can say that his ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
45.
... problem drinkers,
we smile at such a ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
46.
... problem had
been solved.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
47.
... problem had
been solved, there was nothing ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
When, therefore, we were approached by those in
whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
48.
... problem had
them hopelessly defeated.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
49.
... problem has
been removed.
BB p.85,
Into Action
50.
... problem has
been solved, as well as ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who
have not yet found a happy solution.
51.
... problem has
disappeared will often come strongly.
BB p.75,
Into Action
52.
... problem, if
a doctor is honest with ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this problem, if a
doctor is honest with himself, he must sometimes feel his own inadequacy.
53.
... problem in
all its ramifications.
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
In all probability, we shall never be able to touch more than a fair fraction of the alcohol
problem in all its ramifications.
54.
... problem in
detail, let's have a closer ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
55.
... problem in
favor of those suggested by ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own
will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A.
56.
... problem in
industry, when some became nurses ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when
A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic
problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
57.
... problem is.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
58.
... problem is.
BB p.149,
To Employers
59.
... problem is
not how we are to ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Our main problem is not how we
are to stay married; it is
how to be more happily married by eliminating
the severe emotional twists that have so often stemmed from alcoholism.
60.
... problem is
solved, to feel that he ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.
61.
... problem is
to help them discover a ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The problem is to help them discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason can shine.
62.
... problem, it
might pay to take another ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it might
pay to take another look down the line.
63.
... problem left
over from yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
64.
... problem now
becomes just how and by ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific
means shall we be able to let Him in?
65.
... problem of
drink you are, of course, ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
66.
... problem of
mental control.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
67.
... problem of
several million actual and potential ...
BB xxi,
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.
68.
... problem of
the alcoholic centers in his ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
69.
... problem, or
any other.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it
didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
70.
... problem or
business deal which was to ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have had many men who had,
for example, worked a period of months on some
problem or business deal which was to be settled
on a certain date, favorably to them.
71.
... problem or
He has not.
BB p.120,
To Wives
72.
... problem people
who have found a way ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been talking about problems because we are
problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with
all who can use it.
73.
... problem ranging
from a lonely-heart Eskimo to ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
74.
... problem that
it may bring.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Perhaps we think of our day's work and the chances it may afford us to
be useful and helpful, or
of some special problem
that it may bring.
75.
... problem: the
intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
76.
... problem: There
may be divorce, separation, or ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
77.
... problem, to
hear from the lips of ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
78.
... problem was
so complex, and his depression ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
His alcoholic problem was
so complex, and his depression so great, that
we felt his only hope would be
through what we then called "moral psychology," and we doubted if even that would
have any effect.
79.
... problem was
taken away.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
80.
... problem we
could possibly have.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.
81.
... problem, we
hope that you may pause ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
82.
... problem, what
character defects contributed to my ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Surveying his business or employment
record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my
drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability?
83.
... problem which
money could buy was at ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
84.
... problem will
be to discover the person ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
85.
... problem with
which you struggle usually falls ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
86.
... problem would
hardly be scratched.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of
the problem would hardly be
scratched.
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