No Turning Back

From "The alcoholic can recover"

"No reliable evidence exists that anyone who ever drank alcoholically has been able
to return, for long, to normal social drinking. There is no such thing as being
'a little bit alcoholic.' Because the illness progresses in stages, some alcoholics
show more extreme symptoms than others. Once problem drinkers cross over the line into alcoholism, however, they cannot turn back."

c. 1976, Is There an Alcoholic in Your Life?
(A.A. Pamphlet P-30) - page 8