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May 1998

Anything and Everything Except Sobriety

Tradition Five - Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

By its own definition, the primary purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is "to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." Are we what we say we are, or are we becoming a bunch of phonies? Have our egos let us believe we are something we are not?

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