Big Book - Personal Stories - Part II - They Stopped …

part 8/31/15 9:08 AM Page 8/31/15 9:08 AM Page 278 THEY Stopped IN TIMEA mong today s incoming members, many havenever reached the advanced stages of alcoholism, thoughgiven time all might of these fortunate ones have had little or no ac-quaintance with delirium, with hospitals, asylums, andjails. Some were drinking heavily, and there had been occa-sional serious episodes. But with many, drinking had beenlittle more than a sometimes uncontrollable had any of these lost either health, business, family,or do men and women like these join seventeen who now tell their experiences answerthat question. They saw that they had become actual or po-tential alcoholics, even though no serious harm had yetbeen realized that repeated lack of drinking control,when they really wanted control, was the fatal symptomthat spelled problem drinking. This, plus mounting emo-tional disturbances, convinced them that compulsive alco-holism already had them; that complete ruin would be onlya question of this danger, they came to They realized thatin the end alcoholism could be as mortal as cancer; cer-tainly no sane man would wait for a malignant growth tobecome fatal before seeking , these seventeen s, and hundreds of thou-sands like them, have been saved years of infinite sum it up something

THEY STOPPED IN TIME Among today’s incoming A.A. members, many have never reached the advanced stages of alcoholism, though given time all might have.

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