Because this book has become the basic text for our society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong. The big book of alcoholics anonymous the world famous eye. We, of alcoholics anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions alcoholics anonymous alcoholics anonymous this is the fourth edition of the big book, the basic text for alcoholics anonymous.
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There is every evidence that women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions. The first edition appeared in april 1939, and in the following sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into circulation. To wives w ith few exceptions, our book thus far has spoken of men. We agnostics i n the precedingchapters you have learned something of alcoholism. Since the first edition appeared, in 1939, it has helped millions of men and women recover from alcoholism. Bills story 75k pdf there is a solution 77k pdf more about alcoholism. Read the big book online pdf of alcoholics anonymous. Copyright alcoholics anonymous world services, inc. Acceptance page 417 alcoholics anonymous acceptance is the answer to all of my problems today. We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the nonalcoholic. The basic text for alcoholics anonymous home about aa newcomers the big book the big book you will be redirected to the us aa site. B1 alcoholics anonymous fourth edition 2001 of the big book, basic text of a. This is the fourth edition of the book alcoholics anonymous. But what we have said applies quite as much to women.
To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book. It is the basic text of the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous, and has helped large numbers of alcoholic men and women, young and old, recover as of december 2009, 30,664,881 copies of the big book have been sold or otherwise distributed source aa gso ny. Our earliest printing voiced the hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous at his destination. When the book was first printed, we had scarcely 100 members all told, and every one of them was an almost hopeless case of alcoholism. This fourth edition of alcoholics anonymous came off press in november 2001, at the start of a new millennium. Our activities in behalf of women who drink are on the increase. New stories have been added to the personal histories. We of alcoholics anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book. The big book you will be redirected to the us aa site.
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