"alcohol" in the Big Book

In time we sailed for “Over There.’’ I was very lonely and again turned to alcohol.

Alcohol was my master.

At the hospital I was separated from alcohol for the last time.

We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to

Yet he had no control whatever over alcohol.

If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.

However intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane.

In this respect alcohol was a great persuader.

Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baf­

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol— that our lives had become unmanageable. 2.

The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again.

We could not wish them away any more than alcohol.

Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone— even alcohol.

We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.

The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track.

He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for.

must not have it in our homes; we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn’t think or be reminded about alcohol at all.

Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would escape the alcohol problem.

At a proper time and place explain to all your friends why alcohol disagrees with you.

We would not even do the cause of temperate drinking any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by one who hates it.

Some men have been so impaired by alcohol that they cannot stop.

After all, your family is reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband are working together toward an undreamed-of future.

We have been dealing with alcohol in its worst aspect.

Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.

Alcohol is so sexually stimulating to some men that they have over-indulged.

Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?

But these scrapes can generally be charged, no matter how bad, to the abnormal action of alcohol on his mind.

Whatever the method, its object is to thoroughly clear mind and body of the effects of alcohol.

Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.

As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down.

He cannot picture life without alcohol.

Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it.