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Old 05-28-2018, 03:34 PM
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Gottalife
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritual program of action set out in the book Alcoholics Anonymous after which the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous was named.

The book contains useful information on who might benefit from the program including a detailed description of the alcoholic. It contains a sentence starting “we realise we know only a little” written in the context of a new idea which had no track record and which the authors had no idea whether it would take off or not. 80 years later and millions have recovered by putting into practice those suggestions. One medical expert described AA as “the most successful self help program ever, in the history of the world.” So it has some track record. I don’t know if anything that has been more successful in this field.

But there is another proviso in the text, clearly suggesting that AA is intended for the more serious cases and acknowledging that alternative recovery may be possible for many. It goes “Whether or not you can recover on a non-spiritual basis will depend upon the extent to which you have already lost the power to choose whether you will drink or not.”

There are plenty of people on this site claiming they still have the power of choice. There is only one way to find out if you still have it. Make the choice.
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