We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. 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. Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous [First Edition], p. 41 Reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.*
Thought to Ponder . . .
If we want to quit drinking, we are going to have to quit drinking.
