The Doctor's Opinion
What was the doctor's full name? (First, MI, Last)
William D. Silkworth MD
"We of alcoholics anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly all have recovered. They have solved the ______ ________."
Drink Problem
"Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were _____ _________."
Real Alcoholics
What are the three main categories of people concerning beliefs?
Atheist, Agnostic, Believer
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly _________ _____ ______.
Followed our path
What hospital did the doctor work at?
Towns Hospital
"The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a _________ ___________.
Common Solution
Our drinking careers were characterized by countless attempts to what?
Prove that we can drink like other people
"You may be suffering from an illness which only a _________ __________ will conquer."
Spiritual Experience
What are those people who are constitutionally incapable incapable of doing?
Being Honest with Themselves
"In our belief, any picture of the alcoholic that leaves out the ______ _______ is incomplete."
Physical factor
"We feel that the ________ of our drinking is but a beginning."
Elimination
"To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the ________ some of us have.
Quantities
What was our dilemma?
Lack of Power
"We beg of you to be _________ and ________ from the very start."
Fearless
Thorough
"In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a _______ _______ _______ ________, if they are to re-create their lives."
Power Greater Than Themselves
What type of drinker can stop or moderate if a sufficiently strong reason comes up?
Hard (Heavy)
"Whether a person can quit upon a ____________ basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to _______ whether he will drink or not."
Nonspiritual
Choose
"When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your _____ _______ __ ___."
Own conception of God
"The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on __________ can hardly be a success."
Self-will
"We have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the _________ ________ now growing up among them."
Altruistic Movement
"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure have lost the ____ __ ____ in drink."
power of choice
What is the common thread in Jim and Fred's relapses? What did they fail to do?
They failed to enlarge their spiritual life
"We talked of _________, while we were ________ ourselves."
Intolerance
Intolerant
"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to ________ and _______."
Futility
Unhappiness