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


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1.
  ... drunk.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.


2.
  ... drunk.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Shortly afterward I came home drunk.


3.
  ... drunk.  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
He is always more or less insanely drunk.


4.
  ... drunk?  BB How It Works, p.70
Does this mean we are going to get drunk?


5.
  ... drunk.  BB Into Action, pp.72-73
Almost invariably they got drunk.


6.
  ... drunk.  BB To Wives, p.110
He is violent, or appears definitely insane when drunk.


7.
  ... drunk.  BB To Wives, p.120
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.


8.
  ... drunk.  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
He got drunk.


9.
  ... drunk.  BB To Employers, p.146
When his wife next calls saying he is sick, you might jump to the conclusion he is drunk.


10.
  ... drunk.  BB To Employers, p.147
You put me on the spot every time you get drunk.


11.
  ... drunk.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
A few hemorrhage so badly that -- drained of all A.A. spirit and principle -- they get drunk.


12.
  ... drunk?"  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
"When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?"


13.
  ... drunk again.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
Yet he got drunk again.


14.
  ... drunk again immediately?  BB To Wives, pp.107-108
Why was it, when these dangers were pointed out that they agreed, and then got drunk again immediately?


15.
  ... drunk again to make more passions possible.  12&12 Step Four, p.44
We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then have drunk again to make more passions possible.


16.
  ... drunk all over again.  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
Then comes the day when he simply cannot make it and gets drunk all over again.


17.
  ... drunk and let their groups down with ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
Sometimes, they got distressingly drunk and let their groups down with a bang.


18.
  ... drunk's dilemma.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
I bore down hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's dilemma.


19.
  ... drunk, don't blame yourself.  BB To Wives, p.120
If he gets drunk, don't blame yourself.


20.
  ... drunk every night, but in order to ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
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.


21.
  ... drunk farm wanted a manager who could ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
A state drunk farm wanted a manager who could really handle inebriates.


22.
  Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.


23.
  ... drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.


24.
  ... drunk -- for at the time, you see, ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
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.


25.
  ... drunk for vainglory -- that we might the ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
We have drunk for vainglory -- that we might the more enjoy foolish dreams of pomp and power.


26.
  ... drunk gave me!  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
What a freeze that drunk gave me!


27.
  ... drunk half a dozen times in rapid ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
To his consternation, he found himself drunk half a dozen times in rapid succession.


28.
  ... drunk has a terrific hangover because he ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today.


29.
  ... drunk he could hardly speak.  BB To Employers, p.136
Not long afterward he had called me from Hartford on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.


30.
  ... drunk in a short time.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
Nevertheless, he was drunk in a short time.


31.
  ... drunk may smash the furniture in your ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
A drunk may smash the furniture in your home, or burn a mattress.


32.
  ... drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
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.


33.
  ... drunk on a binge who possessed a ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, pp.167-168
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.


34.
  ... drunk on beer.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
It was harmless; nobody ever got drunk on beer.


35.
  ... drunk on the job, taking a trip, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
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.


36.
  ... drunk on the way home from here.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here.


37.
  ... drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might be irreparable.


38.
  ... drunk, so I began to fortify my ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
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.


39.
  ... drunk; that the most majestic constructions of ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
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.


40.
  ... drunk the day after making their resolutions; ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Some will be drunk the day after making their resolutions; most of them within a few weeks.


41.
  ... drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
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.


42.
  ... drunk then.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
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.


43.
  ... drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.


44.
  ... drunk to end all drunks.  BB To Wives, p.106
In desperation, we have even got tight ourselves -- the drunk to end all drunks.


45.
  ... drunk to escape the guilt of passions, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then have drunk again to make more passions possible.


46.
  ... drunk to think or write.  BB Bill's Story, p.2
At one of the finals I was too drunk to think or write.


47.
  ... drunk to work on.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
But first I'd have to find a drunk to work on.


48.
  ... drunk, unless he is ugly and the ...  BB Working With Others, p.90
Don't deal with him when he is very drunk, unless he is ugly and the family needs your help.


49.
  ... drunk up a good chunk of our ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
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.


50.
  ... drunk who complained about the job she ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
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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