Alcoholics Anonymous, The Doctor's Opinion
Channel: AA - Recovered - Alcoholics Anonymous - AA100011
Date: 10/01/2022

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Alcoholics Anonymous, The Doctor's Opinion

AA ~ THE DOCTOR’S OPINION ~ William D. Silkworth, M.D.

"The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks"


A letter from Dr. Silkworth to Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939

Dr. Silkworth defines alcoholism - 

"Of course an alcoholic ought to be freed from his physical craving 
for liquor" - Big book XXVII


"We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker."  - Big book XXVIII


(NEVER means not one time!)


STEP 1
We admitted we were 
powerless over alcohol - that 
our lives had become 
unmanageable.


STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power 
greater than ourselves could 
restore us to sanity


STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our 
will and our lives over to the 
care of God as we understood 
Him.


STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless 
moral inventory of ourselves.


STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves, 
and to another human being 
the exact nature of our wrongs.


STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have 
God remove all these defects 
of character.


STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove 
our shortcomings.


STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we 
had harmed, and became 
willing to make amends to 
them all.


STEP 9
Made direct amends to such 
people wherever possible, 
except when to do so would 
injure them or others.


STEP 10
Continued to take personal 
inventory and when we were 
wrong promptly admitted it.


STEP 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.


STEP 12
Having had a spiritual 
awakening as the result of 
these steps, we tried to 
carry this message to 
alcoholics, and to practice 
these principles in all 
our affairs.


SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE

HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE

TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS


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