Addiction the Disease

The Alcoholics Anonymous program can be very daunting to a new comer. This list of points may be helpful. Discuss them with a longer sober member for clarity. From the Big Book ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’ (page numbers from 2nd, ed). It would probably be more instructive if you have the Big Book for reference in front of you while reading these points. I have found it a good list to review my program from time to time. From it [alcoholism] stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. p. 64 An illness of this sort – and we have come to believe it an illness – involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. p.18 But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. p. 18 We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. p. 30 If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer. p. 44 Continue to speak of alcoholism as an illness, a fatal malady. p. 92 Had we fully understood the nature of the alcoholic illness, we might have behaved differently. p. 107 While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness. p. 115 At such moments we forget that alcoholism is an illness over which we could not possibly have had any power. p. 118 At this point,...
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