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Topic #009/2025 The Living Sober book should be removed from our literature
What do you want Conference to do?
Remove the Living Sober book from our literature.
What issue does this proposal address?
The Living sober Book contradicts the AA Big Book and is not suitable for a real alcoholic. The poor advice, tips and tricks, recommended in the Living Sober book will not work. If they did, the alcoholic would not be powerless. The misguided advice in the Living Sober book has the power to kill a real alcoholic.
Background information that supports this proposal
A real alcoholic, as described in the AA Big Book and the Twelve Steps of Alcoholic’s Anonymous is powerless over alcohol and has, at certain times, no defence against the first drink.
How will this proposal benefit the fellowship or the still suffering alcoholic?
It will explain what a “real alcoholic” is. Explain the mental obsession and physical craving and why at certain times, ” real alcoholics” have no defence against the first drink. It will explain “powerlessness” and the difference between a problem drinker and someone suffering from the mental illness, that is alcoholism.
What are the estimated costs of implementing this suggestion?
None.
At what level of group conscience (if any) was this topic discussed?
There has been a ground swell of members, world wide, for many years, that would like to see this book removed from our literature.
