Big Book A
The body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his ___________________________ .
What is : mind
Any picture of the alcoholic which leaves out [the] physical factor is ____________.
What is : incomplete
More often than not, it is imperative that a man’s ________ be cleared before he is approached...
What is: brain
(Alcoholics) are restless, irritable and discontented unless they can again experience the sense
of ease and comfort which comes at once by ______________________ .
What is : taking a few drinks
These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a ____________ beyond their mental control.
What is : craving
Once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed finds himself easily able to control his _____ for alcohol.
What is : desire
Among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics are __________ .
What is : doomed
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a _____ _____ than themselves if they are to recreate their lives.
What is : a power greater
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of ___________ develops, they pass through the well-knowns stages of a spree...
What is : craving
… there are types entirely normal in every respect except in the effect ________________ has on them.
What is : alcohol
The doctor’s theory that we have an ___________ to alcohol interests us.
What is : allergy
This man, and over one hundred others, appear to have_________________ .
What is : (recovered)
We believe that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an ______________ .
What is : Allergy
… unless this person can experience an entire __________________________ there is very little hope of his recovery.
What is : psychic change
The only relief we have to suggest is entire ____________________ .
What is : abstinence
One feels that something more than _______ _______ is needed to produce the essential psychic change.
What is : human power
As ex-problem drinkers, we can say that [the doctor’s] explanation makes _____ _____ .
What is : good sense
These allergic types can never safety use alcohol in ______ ________ .
What is : any form
… once a _______ ________ has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol.
What is: psychic change
It did not satisfy us to be told we could not _________our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life…
What is : control
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by _______________ .
What is : alcohol
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor ______________ for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.
What is : hospitalization
… the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average ________ drinker.
What is : temperate
There is the type who always believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can drink without ____________________ .
What is: danger
___________ has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.
What is : Faith