From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... types can
never safely use alcohol in ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
2.
... types do
not respond to the ordinary ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
3.
... types entirely
normal in every respect except ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
4.
... types with
which A.A. and the whole ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Of course the depressive and the power-driver are personality extremes,
types with which A.A. and the whole world abound.
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