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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
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He got drunk.
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Why was it, when these dangers
were pointed out that they agreed, and then got drunk again immediately?
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We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then
have drunk again to make more passions possible.
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My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
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Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and commissions advertised
the fact that A.A. members served them.
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In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
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He browbeat everybody,
and everybody expected
that he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.
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Not long afterward he had
called me from Hartford on
two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.
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It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning
money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
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Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.
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Here are some of the methods
we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with
and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
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If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might be
irreparable.
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It then occurred to me that after one was all smelled up with beer nobody could tell what had been drunk, so I began to fortify my beer with straight alcohol.
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We had long talks when I would
still her forebodings by
telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were
so derived.
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But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished their
security.
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As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
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We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then
have drunk again to make more passions possible.
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Suppose, for instance,
that we have drunk up a good chunk of our firm's money, whether by "borrowing" or
on a heavily padded expense account.
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Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate
drunk who complained about
the job she was doing and how
she was overpaid, then such
a person could surely not be
called a professional
A.A.
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