Admitting Powerlessness

"But you have taken the First Step already," the man said. "You have admitted that you can't stop drinking, that you are compelled to carry on drinking once you have had a small quantity of booze, that somehow you always take that first drink against all better knowledge, that the fact you did not complete your University course, and are homeless and deeply in debt is a result of your drinking. You have just admitted that and in AA we call that 'taking the First Step'."