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Old 02-16-2009, 05:34 AM
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progression in women

to be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. This is particularly true of women. Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in few years. Certain drinkers, who would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at thei inability.... to stop.
.Alcoholics Anonymous 1st edition page 33
I was so relieved when I found this piece in the big book, once again I got my answer. I was shocked at the progression of my disease...

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Old 02-16-2009, 05:43 AM
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I'm not a fan of the BB, but it contains some good nuggets of information. For whatever reason, physiologically the drinking knocks us down a lot faster than it does men. The way I see it, that's a good thing: I only lost three years of my life instead of ten or twenty, because I hit bottom so fast.
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The CDC ...U.S. Center for Disease Control also noted a difference.

Sorry...I can't find the info just now but I do remember they
suggest a moderate drinker have no more than
1 drink per day for women....2 for men.

Something to do with our different cell structure.
Hope another member will have more facts and share...
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I believe that the progression the BB is referring to is the progression of alcoholism--from social drinkers to warning signs to early alcoholism to basic alcoholism to chronic alcoholism--where this progression takes less time in females than it does in males. I read a study in early recovery (somewhere around 1987) where it said that for males this progression was approximately 7-10 and for females approximately 3-5 years. All I could think of was .... there's womyn for ya; when we wanna get something done, we wanna do it right, and right now!!..... LOL

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