A Dozen Steps

There’s Plenty Of Work Out There!

by Mark on October 2nd, 2006

From page 89;

“Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.“

The following is from an email sent by Arthur to the AA History Lovers Group at Yahoo responding to “Counting Members,”

‘To help put some things in a different perspective regarding counts, a 2006 issue (number 16) of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) report carries an article titled “Alcohol Dependence or Abuse: 2002, 2003 and 2004.” One of its major findings is that “Among persons aged 12 or older, 7.6 percent (18.2 million) met the criteria for alcohol dependence or abuse in the past year.” Even though AA may have a worldwide membership “guesstimated” at almost 2 million, in the United States alone there are over 18 million persons that would benefit from hearing the message of recovery that AA carries. There appears to be much work left to do. That 18+ million number would probably be a far more useful one to cite at AA functions.’

I can relate this precisely to the statement made by a fellow here at our clubhouse one day. He mentioned he had a friend who had difficulty finding a meeting in New York City. I told him that if his friend had difficulty finding a meeting in NYC then his friend wasn’t looking for a meeting!

If you’re having difficulty finding someone to work with - you ain’t looking hard enough! :)

Thanks JJ and Sober Chick for your kind comments last night and this morning ;-)

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