I Don’t Have A Desire to Drink
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By:
D.R.
| Bellevue, Wash.
He took a geographic from India to America. When that didn’t work, he turned to AA
Quote May 8, 2014
“Should our present success continue, people will commence to assert that AA is a brand new way of life, maybe a new religion, capable of saving the world. We shall be told it is our bounden duty to show modern society how it ought to live ...
“Fortunately most of us are convinced that these are perilous speculations, alluring ingredients of that new heady wine we are now being offered, each bottle marked ‘Success’!
“Of this subtle vintage may we never drink too deeply.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., April 1948 “Tradition Five” The Language of the Heart
Quote March 8, 2016
“We have grown from two people to two million ... We must be doing something right.”
West Springfield, Mass., June 2002 From: “Live and Let Live” AA Grapevine
Quote March 8, 2013
“We have grown from two people to two million ... We must be doing something right.”
West Springfield, Mass., June 2002 From: “Live and Let Live” AA Grapevine
Supermom
July 2012
By:
Sandra M.
| Winnsboro, Texas
She took care of everyone else while alcohol took care of her
What We Were Like
May 1995
By:
Ron R.
| Bowling Green, Kentucky
Rowland H. - A vital link in the chain leading up to the formulation of Alcoholics Anonymous
One of Those Bad Cons Nobody Can Reach
July 1975
By:
Anonymous
In this 14-page section, the Grapevine shares the experience, hope--and success--of some whose alcoholism brought them to a prison cell
Why Psychiatrists Fail with Alcoholics
November 1972
By:
Harry M. Tiebout, MD
From the September 1956 Grapevine
11th Tradition
July 1971
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
I've Never Quit Being Active.
November 1968
By:
C. H. S.
| St. Petersburg, Florida
This is a life-changing program and the growth process never ends - Big Book stories--Updated
First Steps Out of Agnosticism
April 1968
By:
D. B.
| Texas
He had failed himself as his own god; now where should he look for meaning?
I Needed Psychiatry Before and After AA
November 1966
By:
M. W.
| Norwalk, Connecticut
An AA member says<lb A doctor sent him to AA in the first place; and another helped him work the program
I Was a Perpetual Private
May 1966
By:
T. C. F.
A soldier, now in Vietnam, and no longer a private, tells how he found AA
The Mid-timer
October 1965
By:
J. S. C.
| New Hartford, Connecticut
On being neither new nor old in AA<lbAre you finding it increasingly difficult to remember what the shakes were like?
Should We Change Our Name?
August 1964
By:
J. S. C.
| New Hartford, New York
Is an alcoholic a drunk? Does anonymous mean secret?
I Hated 'Drunkalogs'
July 1964
By:
L. S.
| Manhattan, New York
Do gruesome stories about our drinking experiences really help anyone?
Pills for the Year 2000
August 1962
By:
Milton Golin
AAs have other sources of hope than pills and gadgets--but the medics are working on some weird ones.