PDF EDITION of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

The

ANONYMOUS

PRESS

PDF EDITION

of

ALCOHOLICS

ANONYMOUS

The Story of

How Many Thousands of Men and Women

Have Recovered from Alcoholism

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The Anonymous Press is made up of a bunch of A.A.

members staying sober by carrying the message of A.A.. Our

primary purpose is to carry the message of A.A. by making our

basic text affordable to all. Where we can, we also try to make

the text easier to study and understand.

We realize that A.A., The Fellowship that saved our lives,

is held together by The Traditions so The Traditions are what

guide us. All of our books are sold at cost. We have no

employees and we are certainly not organized.

Our efforts have resulted in the distribution of our

fellowship¡¯s basic text to tens of thousands of fellow alcoholics

who otherwise may not have had a book of their own. Detoxes,

rehabs, prisons and shelters can now afford to give away our

text - offering countless alcoholics a chance to learn the

unadulterated message of our program.

If you are a member of A.A. and would like to lend a

hand to help in our work, volunteers and contributions are

always welcome.

The Anonymous Press

The Anonymous Press is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. or with the General Service Office

of Alcoholics Anonymous. The publication of this book has

not been authorized or endorsed by, and does not imply affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. or the

General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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ABOUT THIS E-BOOK

This is a basic version of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous.

This PDF version has been adapted from e-AA: a reference

to Alcoholics Anonymous by The Anonymous Press.

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P D F Ve r s i o n O n e

ALCOHOLICS

ANONYMOUS

FOREWORD

W

E, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one

hundred men and women who have recovered from

a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show

other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the

main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these

pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary. We think this account of our

experiences will help everyone to better understand the

alcoholic. Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is

a very sick person. And besides, we are sure that our

way of living has its advantages for all.

It is important that we remain anonymous because we

are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication. Being mostly business or professional folk, we

could not well carry on our occupations in such an event.

We would like it understood that our alcoholic work is an

avocation.

When writing or speaking publicly about alcoholism,

we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name,

designating himself instead as ¡°a member of Alcoholics

Anonymous.¡±

Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this

request, for otherwise we shall be greatly handicapped.

We are not an organization in the conventional

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