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We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar wi
by okareaman 5y ago
We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn't done so yet.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous Chapter 3, More About Alcoholism
I may soon be able to drink again after having my genes edited, but I'm not sure I would do it
- bottled_poe 5y agoThe word “always” in this passage doesn’t sound very scientific. Makes me wonder if the rest of the content has the same tone.
- okareaman 5y agoYes it does have this tone. It's not science. It was written in 1935 by Bill Wilson, a former stock market speculator and salesman. It's designed to be inspirational, as in, you may think you are a hopeless drunk, but I have a solution for you right here in this book. Give it a try. Edit: Something not often discussed is that Bill Wilson was hoping to make money from this book, being dead broke in the middle of the Great Depression. The first people he helped sober up convinced him that he had to give it away freely.