Home Page

Search "164 and More"
 
The Book "164 and More"
 
About Recovery Press

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


Click    to display the full page from the Big Book


1.
... chronic alcoholic.    BB p.27,  There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
The doctor said: "You have the mind of a chronic alcoholic.


2.
... chronic alcoholics are doomed.    BB xxx(xxviii),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Much has been written pro and con, but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics are doomed.


3.
... chronic alcoholics back from the gates of ...    BB xxvii(xxv),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.


4.
... chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an ...    BB xxviii(xxvi),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.


5.
... chronic alcoholism.    BB xxxi(xxix),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
About one year prior to this experience a man was brought in to be treated for chronic alcoholism.

6.
... chronic backslider, only to be told: "How ...    12&12 p.173,  Tradition Nine
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.

7.
... chronic pain of envy or to be ...    12&12 p.66,  Step Six
No one wants to be agonized by the chronic pain of envy or to be paralyzed by sloth.


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.

Top of Screen  Top