> the authors of AA’s Big Book, first published in 1939, helped reduce the stigma of addiction A truth with modifications. It both individualized alcoholism, a

> the authors of AA’s Big Book, first published in 1939, helped reduce the stigma of addiction A truth with modifications. It both individualized alcoholism, and made it more acceptable in a sense. Before, alcoholism wasn't a thing, "drunkenness" was, and it was societies that had a drunkenness problem, not individuals.