From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... rehabilitation?
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Suppose my answer had to
be that A.A. needed a lot of money; that A.A. went in for education, hospitals,
and rehabilitation?
2.
... rehabilitation he
commenced to present his conceptions ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
As part of his rehabilitation
he commenced to present his conceptions
to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that
they must do likewise with
still others.
3.
... rehabilitation, he
had a talk with me ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
Following his physical rehabilitation, he
had a talk with me in which he frankly stated he thought the treatment a
waste of effort, unless I could assure him,
which no one ever had, that in the future he
would have the "will power"
to resist the impulse to
drink.
4.
... rehabilitation of
alcoholics.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through
his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and
physical rehabilitation of
alcoholics.
5.
... rehabilitation of
good men.
BB p.148,
To Employers
6.
... rehabilitation of
these men than the altruistic ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the
rehabilitation of these men
than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.
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