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Alcoholism: Choice or Disease?
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Cure?
1. We admitt
ed we w
ere powerless
over alco
hol—that
our lives h
ad become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Ad
mitt
ed to
God
, to
ours
elve
s, a
nd to
ano
ther
hum
an b
eing
the
exac
t nat
ure
of o
ur w
rong
s.6. W
ere entirely ready to have God remove all th
ese defects of
character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing
to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly
admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
Of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried tocarry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our
affairs.
Cure?
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