From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... type.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
2.
... type.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
3.
... type.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
We are all familiar with this type.
4.
... type are
in the grip of a ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... type I
had come to regard as ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
6.
... type of
alcoholic who is able and ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to
get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
7.
... type of
beginning we are obliged to ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged
to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.
8.
... type of
hard drinker.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
9.
... type of
man who is unwilling to ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
10.
... type who
always believes that after being ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the type who always
believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink without danger.
11.
... type, who
is, perhaps, the least understood ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends, and about whom a whole chapter could be written.
12.
... type with
whom other methods had failed ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I personally know scores of cases who were of
the type with whom other methods had failed completely.
13.
... type you
may feel you had better ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
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