You may be new to an alcohol problem or you may know some one with alcohol problem, alcoholism has been called a  disease by the AMA . All could improve their knowledge about the alcohol problem by reading this book. It has been put in a very easy to read and navigate Adobe PDF file , so you can download to your phone or other portable device. 

Alcoholics Anonymous-the Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism.

The Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Download has the following:


  • 188 pages with easy to navigate book marks
  • Foreword
  • The Doctor.'s Opinion
  • 1 Bill's Story
  • 2 There Is A Solution
  • 3 More About Alcoholism
  • 4 We Agnostics
  • 5 How it Works
  • 6 Into Action
  • 7 Working With Others
  • 8 To Wives
  • 9 The Family Afterward
  • 10 To Employers
  • 11 A vision For You
  • Dr. Bob's Nightmare
  • Spiritual Experience
Key features and benefits
·the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery , Grey sheet Anonymous , Cocaine Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous , Narcotics Anonymous
·contains full, original text describing AA program.


Old AA Preamble


OLD PREAMBLE

(This is the text of an old preamble, which was once used at AA meetings.
Presumably, it was never official AA literature, though it's believed to
have started in Baltimore in 1946)

We are gathered here because we are faced with the fact that we are
powerless over alcohol and unable to do anything about it without the help
of a Power greater than ourselves. We feel that each person's religious
views, if any, are his own affair. The simple purpose of the program of
Alcoholics Anonymous is to show what may be done to enlist the aid of a
Power greater than ourselves regardless of what our individual conception of
that Power may be.

In order to form a habit of depending upon and referring all we do to that
Power, we must at first apply ourselves with some diligence. By often
repeating these acts, they become habitual and the help rendered becomes
natural to us.

We have all come to know that as alcoholics we are suffering from a serious
illness for which medicine has no cure. Our condition may be the result of
an allergy which makes us different from other people. It has never been by
any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently cured. The only relief
we have to offer is absolute abstinence, the second meaning of A.A.

There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is a desire
to stop drinking. Each member squares his debt by helping others to recover.

An Alcoholics Anonymous is an alcoholic who through application and
adherence to the A.A. program has forsworn the use of any and all alcoholic
beverage in any form. The moment he takes so much as one drop of beer, wine,
spirits or any other alcoholic beverage he automatically loses all status as
a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. A.A. is not interested in sobering up
drunks who are not sincere in their desire to remain sober for all time. Not
being reformers, we offer our experience only to those who want it.

We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree and on which we can join
in harmonious action. Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly
followed our program. Those who do not recover are people who will not or
simply cannot give themselves to this simple program. Now you may like this
program or you may not, but the fact remains, it works. It is our only
chance to recover.

There is a vast amount of fun in the A.A. fellowship. Some people might be
shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity but just underneath there lies
a deadly earnestness and a full realization that we must put first things
first and with each of us the first thing is our alcoholic problem. To drink
is to die. Faith must work twenty-four hours a day in and through us or we
perish.

In order to set our tone for this meeting I ask that we bow our heads in a
few moments of silent prayer and meditation.

I wish to remind you that whatever is said at this meeting expresses our own
individual opinion as of today and as of up to this moment. We do not speak
for A.A. as a whole and you are free to agree or disagree as you see fit, in
fact, it is suggested that you pay no attention to anything which might not
be reconciled with what is in the A.A. Big Book.

If you don't have a Big Book, it's time you bought you one. Read it, study
it, live with it, loan it, scatter it, and then learn from it what it means
to be an A.A.
Grapevine, December, 1952
For the Holidays...some AA history...
 
Between noon of Wednesday, December 24, 1952 and midnight of Thursday, January 1st, 1953, some 120,000 members of AA will have seen their dreams of a dry holiday and their hopes of a sane New Year's come safely true.
 
The first Christmas for AA was the depression year of 1935. There were three old timers to mark it ... hardly a dozen newcomers to share it with them. In Akron, Dr. Bob and Bill D. were going on their second six months. Four recruits had from four months to two months.. in New York, Bill W. had thirteen months since his last drink, seven months since his historic trip to Akron and the start of AA.
 
In Akron, the six gathered with their families at Dr. Bob's. There was no ceremony .... no exchange of presents. The Twelve Steps had not yet been formulated. The Big Book was only a vague stirring that would not even be in manuscript until three more Christmases had been achieved. But there was joy that this most dangerous of times for the alcoholic had arrived ... and twenty-four hours by twenty-four hours was being mastered.
 
"There was thanks," remembers one of the two who survives that first Akron Christmas, "that we had come this far. However, I am certain that there was still considerable fear and trembling ... not fear that this new way would not work, but doubt and uncertainty that we would be able to hold on to it.
 
Bill W. recalls only a quiet day in New York that Yule of 1935 where there were very few involved. Five years later, there was a place in New York for an AA Christmas party ... the first AA clubhouse. And about the 24th Street Club there hangs a real Santa Claus story!
 
Or rather, it is a Saint Nicholas story. Just one hundred years before, in 1840, the building, that would later become the AA Club House, was erected at Number 334 1/2 West 24th Street ... the property of a family named Moore who were large landowners in Manhattan Island's Chelsea section. And driving across the snow-covered lawn, Dr. Clement Clarke Moore began to compose (some say just as his sled runners touched what is now the meeting room of AA's first clubhouse!) his immortal gift to children of all ages ... " 'Twas the night before Christmas."
 
 (Grapevine, December, 1952).

Ameriplan
Ameriplan

Listed on: Dmegs Web Directory

Joey's Friends Too

Motorcycle Service Manuals

Sports Equipment Shop online for an exciting range of sports equipment clothing and accessories at low internet prices and fast home delivery service - sportboutiques.eu


The Dreamweaver Bible
 
Make a Free Website with Yola.