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Just for today, sobriety is enough for an ex-cop with a tough drinking story

She came to see that there was something more powerful than her

When drinking, his life was a nightmare. When he got sober, it was real.

From the AA Grapevine, February 1958, Bill W.'s classic essay looks back on the Fellowship's early experiences with addicts and special-interest group factions and outlines what they learned.

He knew he was slowly dying, but losing his job was serious

The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity.

From the February 1958 Grapevine

From the February 1958 Grapevine

At least three parts Tradition were necessary as secret ingredients - From the November 1963 Grapevine

AA's Traditions, Bill wrote, were "hammered out on the anvil of experience." Here, from an early Grapevine, Bill shares some of the experience that led to the adoption of our two anonymity Traditions - From the January 1946 Grapevine

What can be done about them?

I found at least "three parts Tradition" to be necessary as secret ingredients in mine

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings

The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity

Any time is a good time to review our relations with each other and with the world outside. In the following article Bill has done this with the accent on special groups which seek to handle drug addiction. At the moment this problem is under a great amou