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re: Drinking beer at an AA meeting
Posted on 2/24/18 at 7:11 am to TomballTiger
Posted on 2/24/18 at 7:11 am to TomballTiger
That said this doesn't happen over night. Meetings dont keep me sober they are just a piece. Get a sponsor work the Steps have a spiritual experience and do 10 11 and 12 all day.
This post was edited on 2/24/18 at 7:12 am
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Posted on 2/24/18 at 7:31 am to TomballTiger
Wow..what classic "AA" thread. It's easy to see who works a real program and has found srenity and who can't stop drinking but wants to pace blame on anything and everything except themselves. Here's the deal as I know it to be true:
A real Alcoholic has lost, and will Never again regain, the ability to control their drinking once they start.
AA, when it's boiled down to the core, is about working the 12 Steps found on page 59.
The 12 Steps are about developing a relationship with a Power greater than yourself.
This Power gives you, finally, the ability to make the decision to not take the first sip of the first drink Today.
Rehab can get you sober, AA keeps you sober! It has worked when nothing else could.
A real Alcoholic has lost, and will Never again regain, the ability to control their drinking once they start.
AA, when it's boiled down to the core, is about working the 12 Steps found on page 59.
The 12 Steps are about developing a relationship with a Power greater than yourself.
This Power gives you, finally, the ability to make the decision to not take the first sip of the first drink Today.
Rehab can get you sober, AA keeps you sober! It has worked when nothing else could.
This post was edited on 2/24/18 at 7:33 am
Posted on 2/24/18 at 7:40 am to Mr Personality
quote:
Mr Personality
you need A HIGHER POWER.........
Posted on 2/24/18 at 7:42 am to Crow Pie
yep, yep, yep, works for me,
This post was edited on 2/24/18 at 7:46 am
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:07 am to ole man
I started drinking at 12 and using meth at 15 by the time I was 35 I wanted to quit and found I couldn't. I started going to rehab and therapeutic communities and doing what the said to do, didn't work. In 2010 I got arrested yet again and I met some cats that showed me what AA really was so 6/13/2010 is my sobriety date and I got with the parctice of the steps and principles of AA. Took me 8 years of struggling and fighting to get sober before this happened, I am now 50 and a productive member of society living a life I never thought I could. My advice is to do the work and receive the results.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:13 am to Agforlife
If you work the program, the promises in the Big Book will happen for you. As i said in an earlier thread
It's a simply program but it's not easy.
It's a simply program but it's not easy.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:18 am to Agforlife
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I started drinking at 12 and using meth at 15 by the time I was 35 I wanted to quit and found I couldn't.
20 years of Meth use?
The folks from the Guinness World Book of Records should be in touch with you.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:21 am to ole man
My dad hasn’t had a drink in 29 years. He’s extremely active in sponsoring. One thing he has mentioned is that now there’s more people who were into drugs than just alcohol and it’s changed the culture. I’ve been to a good number meetings with him, and they’re humbling.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:37 am to SteveLSU35
It's the same addiction, some just use it as an excuse to use another drug, I can't smoke weed but I can drink or i can't do cocaine, or just go to NA meetings and continue to drink.
I was a speed freak and coke addict, when I didn't have either I drank, the end results where the same, and I never been to a N.A. meeting.
I was a speed freak and coke addict, when I didn't have either I drank, the end results where the same, and I never been to a N.A. meeting.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:44 am to soccerfüt
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20 years of Meth use?
The folks from the Guinness World Book of Records should be in touch with you.
Didn't quit til I was 43 and there are many more like me, some have managed to get sober, some haven't and some are dead. AA saved my life.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:44 am to sammy762
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Thanks man. I've been down this road many times and I'm humiliated. The people at Baton Rouge General emergency are getting tired of seeing me. I've been trying to wean over a few days and I think I'm winning. I don't want to go back there but I know it is very life threatening. I've been on the brink of death a few times with DTS
There is a detox center with a treatment center attached opening at 216 S. Foster in BR in a couple of weeks. Try going there for help next time.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 8:46 am to Mr Personality
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. 
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Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:22 am to TigerBR1111
What’s the name of the Center in B R you are referring too? I’ll need to reach out to them.
Also good to see so many fellow AA guys in this thread.
Also good to see so many fellow AA guys in this thread.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:29 am to lsuguy13
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What’s the name of the Center in B R you are referring too? I’ll need to reach out to them.
Detox Center of Louisiana and Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. They are in the same building at 216 S. Foster just past The YMCA and Church of the Way if you are coming from Government Street. Phone is 225-925-5367.
They will be opening very soon.
This post was edited on 2/24/18 at 10:00 am
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:41 am to TigerBR1111
There is a big meeting at Church of the way on Mondays at 6:00 its a big meeting and lot of young and old there
worth going to.
worth going to.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:45 am to TigerBR1111
AA saved my life as well, however I can very closely relate to Hollywood's opinions about AA. I used to sound just like him.
After trying every way i could think of and failing, my struggles beat me down to the point where I could finally concede that maybe I didn't have all the answers.
Then I saw people I knew and who's minds I respected had used this program to overcome what I could not, and I became willing to try a different path, the one that is laid out in the blue book.
The difference it made in my life can hardly be believed, and is a testament to the program, the fellowship and the belief in something greater than oneself.
After trying every way i could think of and failing, my struggles beat me down to the point where I could finally concede that maybe I didn't have all the answers.
Then I saw people I knew and who's minds I respected had used this program to overcome what I could not, and I became willing to try a different path, the one that is laid out in the blue book.
The difference it made in my life can hardly be believed, and is a testament to the program, the fellowship and the belief in something greater than oneself.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:46 am to TigerBR1111
Id bet dollars to pesos we know each other TigerBr.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:48 am to ole man
quote:
There is a big meeting at Church of the way on Mondays at 6:00 its a big meeting and lot of young and old there
I was there last Monday.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:48 am to Mr Personality
I'm actually about to go to an AA meeting. It's the only way I've been able to stay sober for extended periods. The support is what keeps me going. Does don't 13th step the females, I've made that mistake a few times 
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:49 am to ZenFNmaster
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Id bet dollars to pesos we know each other TigerBr.
You are probably correct
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