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


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... pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you ...   BB p.31, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 31 in the Big Book
We do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself.

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... pronounce his death sentence, and often to ...   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.


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