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About Alcoholics Anonymous

Only You Can Decide

“If you seem to be having trouble with your drinking, or if your drinking has reached the point where it worries you a bit, you may be interested in knowing something about Alcoholics Anonymous and the A.A. program of recovery from alcoholism. After reading this brief outline: “This is A.A.” you may decide that A.A. has nothing to offer you. Should this be the case, we suggest only that you keep an open mind on the subject. Consider your drinking carefully in the light of what you may learn from these pages. Determine, for yourself , whether or not alcohol has truly become a problem for you. And remember that you will always be most welcome to join the hundreds of thousands of men and women in A.A. who have put their drinking problems behind them and now lead “normal” lives of constructive, day-by-day sobriety”.

“Remember that alcoholism is a progressive disease. Take it seriously, even if you feel you are only in the early stages of the illness. ALCOHOLISM KILLS PEOPLE. If you are an alcoholic, and if you continue to drink, in time you will get worse”.

“A.A. does not promise to solve your life’s problems. But we can show you how we are learning to live without drinking ‘one day at a time’. We stay away from that ‘first drink’. If there is no first one, there cannot be a tenth one. And when we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became much more manageable”.