It immediately flashed in my brain that I had this alcoholism thing licked, and I could handle a drink.
So I took the drink and cautiously sipped on it for an hour or so ... and nothing happened ... then.
I didn't take another drink that evening, and because of that was able to convince myself that I had "learned" how to drink.
Within a few months I was back to periodic bouts of alcoholic insanity.
There is only one "cure" for me ... doing whatever it takes to not take that first drink ... today. The rest is smoke and mirrors ... for this alcoholic.
Notes & References:
Forty-two personal stories of recovery from alcoholism can be found in the AA Big Book available online at www.aa.org/bigbookonline/.
The website of Alcoholics Anonymous is www.aa.org
The link to the Big Book of AA is www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
The link to finding AA meetings is www.aa.org/lang/en/meeting_finder.cfm
The above websites are available in English, Español, and Français.
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