The book Alcoholics Anonymous says that it's not a cure all. Somewhere around chapter 2.
Alcoholics Anonymous has no leaders or leadership in that sense. There is a board of trustees and business office that take care of matters that affect all of AA, but each group is independent. "Our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not govern."
AA is vastly diverse populated by all ages
Admitted that we could not do it alone; that we were not all-powerful, and that we needed help.
All the typeset editions of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" use the typeface Caledonia (pre-digital) and New Caledonia (digital) for body text. Drop caps are set in Park Avenue. I verified this by looking at the properties panel of a PDF downloaded from aa.org.
According to Alcoholics Anonymous, an alcoholic remains an alcoholic all their lives, even when they've been sober for 40 years. I disagree. I think people can change, they just need motivation and support.
Usually it's an adjective: We don't know who wrote this poem because they decided to remain anonymous. The police received an anonymous phone call giving information about suspects. Sometimes it's used to denote a support group: To stop himself losing all his money, Fred joined Gamblers Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is a group designed to stop people drinking so much.
They are said to provide a cure to all poisons.
The original foreword is the one still shown on page xxiii of all full versions of the fourth edition, immediately preceding The Doctor's Opinion on page xxv.
The original foreword is the one still shown on page xxiii of all full versions of the fourth edition, immediately preceding The Doctor's Opinion on page xxv.
Saying that all authors are alcoholics is like saying that all kids are lazy cheaters. It's not true.
No. Alcoholics Anonymous is a Spiritual Fellowship of alcoholics with the Primary Purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics achieve freedom from alcohol (sobriety) and recover from alcoholism through the teaching and practicing of the Twelve Steps - which is a Program designed to bring about a spiritual awakening in the person practicing it thereby solving all of their problems - including alcoholism. The success rate of the fellowship is very low since very few members actually qualify as alcoholics under AA' "description of the alcoholic" detailed in first forty three pages of the book, "Alcoholics Anonymous" - the volume after which the AA Fellowship was named - while the success rate of those who practice and teach the Twelve Steps to other alcoholics is nearly one hundred percent. The reason why the success rate is low is because of the nature of the illness of alcoholism the individuals' recovery requires that the individual actually puts into practice the suggestions that AA suggests and the problem being that the suffering alcoholic decides to stop getting help and drifts away into the hell of alcohol abuse again if someone is willing to go to vertually any length to stay sober they will but the leg work has to be put in by them. Nobody gets anything out of life for doing nothing after all.
Yes, alcoholics are capable of loving. They are capable of all emotions. They are people.