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


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... published.   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism (Note)   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
(*) True when this book was first published.


2.
... published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics ...   BB p.114, To Wives   Go to page 114 in the Big Book
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums and hospitals of every kind.

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... published in 1946 and later confirmed at ...   12&12 p.18, Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.

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... published, in 1946, we had become sure ...   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
When A.A.'s Traditions were first published, in 1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.


5.
... published in 1955, reached a total of ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The second edition, published in 1955, reached a total of more than 1,150,500 copies.


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... published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.

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... published when our membership was small, dealt ...   12&12 p.23, Step One
That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only.


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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