It is the first drink which triggers, immediately or some time later, the compulsion to drink more and more until we are in drinking trouble again. Many of us have come to believe that our alcoholism is an addiction to the drug alcohol; like addicts of any sort who want to maintain recovery, we have to keep away from the first dose of the drug we have become addicted to.
c. 1998 AAWS, Living Sober, p. 5
Thought to Ponder . . .
When a person tries to control their drinking they have already lost control.
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