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      Concept 1... POWERLESSNESS over 'Amount of Alcohol' Consumed.

1.1 Have you ever tried to stop drinking completely? What was the result?
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1.2 Have you ever tried to limit or control your amount of alcohol? What was the result you used by limiting the amount. For instance, promising yourself or someone else you would have only 2 drinks at a party, etc.
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1.3 What was your results on the alcohol you drank by switching drinks? For instance, you switched from straight liquor to a mixed drink or beer or switched to a drink you do not like.
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1.4 How have you tried to limit or control the amount of alcohol you drank by limiting the time for drinking. For instance, decided not to drink before a certain hour in the day, etc.
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1.5 Have you ever awakened in the morning after drinking and found that you could not remember some part of the evening?
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      Concept 2... POWERLESSNESS over 'Bad Results' from Drinking.

2.1 What have you done to try to drink without bad results? For example, what was the result when you drank only at home or did not leave the house after starting to drink.
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2.2 What have you done to try to limit or avoid the bad effects. What was the result of drinking on your health? For example, do you take medication for alcohol related high blood pressure or stomach problems, other injuries, etc.
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2.3 How else did you try to control the results of your drinking. What was the result and were you successful?
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      Concept 3... UNMANAGEABILITY, the 'Unacceptable Results' of my Drinking.

3.1 What was it, in your life, that was unacceptable to you and brought you to Alcoholics Anonymous?
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3.2 What crisis, other than the one that finally brought you into AA, would eventually have occurred?
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3.3 How has drinking affected your self esteem, self image or self respect?
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3.4 Have you ever gotten into physical fights as a result of your drinking?
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3.5 Have you ever lost a job or a promotion as a result of your drinking?
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3.6 Have you ever lost a lover or significant friend as a result of your drinking?
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3.7 Have you been hospitalized, regular or psychiatric, as a result of your drinking?
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3.8 Have you been very depressed and or felt life was not worth living. Did alcohol and other drugs often cause severe depression? Have you attempted suicide?
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3.9 How has drinking affected your goals for your life and the progress you have made to achieve them?
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3.10 How has drinking affected your health; heart, liver, stomach, skin, nervous system, peripheral neuropathy or tingling pain, numbness in fingers or toes, etc.
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3.11 Did your drinking, put your life or the lives of others in danger?
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3.12 What is it about your behavior, when you drink, that your lover, family, or friends object to most?
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3.13 Has any physical abuse happened to you or others as a result of your drinking?
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3.14 How has your drinking adversely affected you even when you are sober? Is your life still unmanageable even when you are not drinking?
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      Concept 4... IN CONCLUSION...

4.1 What convinces you that you can no longer use alcohol safely.
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4.2 Are you 'admitting' or 'accepting' that you are an alcoholic? What is the difference between these two words?
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4.3 Are you ready to change your life and be free from being a chemically dependent person regardless of what your drug of choice may be?
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4.4 Give 12 reasons why You should continue this 'Process' in the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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---- Ask your Higher Power to please help me to stay away from a drink Today;

---- During the day try to listen and follow your conscience...;"

---- Also, attend at least 'One' AA meeting;

---- And talk to another alcoholic with 'Sponsor Level' sobriety;

---- Make a statement of 'Thanks' to your Higher Power Before Retiring at night ie; for helping me not to pick-up that first drink today, etc;

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