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January 1990

Honesty Is the Key

I just finished reading another of those "Stay out of AA if you're an addict!" letters in the Grapevine, and felt compelled to share my alcohol-related experience. I first came to AA for help because alcohol had dissolved my moral fiber to the point where I got so drunk I took LSD to "go along with the crowd." I had vowed never to do hard drugs, but under the lash of alcohol, I found that I could not even live up to my own low standards of decency. Ironically, an acid trip was my alcoholic bottom.

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