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Sources

The Bookshelf

Every book, pamphlet, paper and archive the site draws on, the pieces that use each one, and where you can read it yourself.

Everything on this site comes from something you can read for yourself. This page gathers the books, pamphlets, papers, articles and records that the deep dives, the film, A Daily Reprieve and the Questions page cite. Tap one to see where to read it and which pages use it.

AA’s own basic books are free to read at aa.org, and so are most of its pamphlets and newsletters. Its histories, Pass It On, Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers and AA Comes of Age, are sold through AA’s online store. For a book that’s out of print, “Find it in a library” shows the libraries that hold it, and many public libraries can borrow a book they don’t have from another library.

Each section’s own Sources, at the end of its Go deeper, also lists the web pages, encyclopedia articles and picture credits it used; those aren’t repeated here. “Quoted” counts the quotations on the deep dives and the daily pages taken from a work, each on a list that’s being checked against the books (see About).

296 books, pamphlets, papers, articles and records, used across 23 deep dives, the film, A Daily Reprieve and the Questions page.

AA’s own books

Published by AA itself, through AA World Services or the Grapevine. The Big Book, the Twelve and Twelve and Living Sober are free to read at aa.org; the histories are sold through AA’s online store.

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of AgeBill W. · Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 195721 pieces · the film · 45 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 650 times

Bill W.’s history of AA’s first twenty years, told around the 1955 convention at St. Louis, where the founders handed AA to its members.

Where to read it

On the site

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book)Works Publishing, 1939; fourth edition, AA World Services, 200122 pieces · the film · 58 days of A Daily Reprieve · Questions · quoted 499 times

AA’s basic text: the program in its first chapters, then members’ stories. The site quotes the first edition of 1939 and the fourth of 2001, and stories first printed in the second (1955) and third (1976).

Where to read it

On the site

Pass It OnAA World Services, 198421 pieces · 46 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 444 times

AA’s biography of Bill W., from his Vermont boyhood to his death in 1971, drawn from his letters, Lois’s diaries and the people who knew him.

Where to read it

On the site

The Language of the HeartBill W. · AA Grapevine, 198815 pieces · 44 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 313 times

Bill W.’s articles for the Grapevine, 1944 to 1970, gathered in one book.

Where to read it

On the site

Daily ReflectionsAA World Services, 19901 piece · 79 days of A Daily Reprieve

Where to read it

On the site

Dr. Bob and the Good OldtimersAA World Services, 198015 pieces · the film · 20 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 430 times

AA’s biography of Dr. Bob, and the story of early AA in Akron and Cleveland, built from interviews with people who were there.

Where to read it

On the site

Twelve Steps and Twelve TraditionsBill W. · AA Grapevine and Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 19539 pieces · 51 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 236 times

An essay on each Step and each Tradition, AA’s second book.

Where to read it

On the site

The loan copyWorks Publishing, early 19395 pieces · 20 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 49 times

The Big Book in draft: the prepublication copies sent out for comment before the book went to press.

Where to read it

Never sold. The pages quote it from transcriptions; Hazelden’s facsimile, The Book That Started It All, reproduces one marked-up copy.

On the site

A.A. World HistoryBob P. · written for AA’s General Service Office, 19856 pieces · the film · quoted 59 times

A history of AA around the world, written for AA’s General Service Office.

Where to read it

Never published. The pages work from a transcription of its chapters posted at silkworth.net.

On the site

As Bill Sees ItBill W. · AA World Services, 1967; first published as The A.A. Way of Life9 days of A Daily Reprieve

Short readings drawn from Bill W.’s writings and letters, a reading at a time. Some days of Daily Reflections take their passage from it.

Where to read it

On the site

Living SoberAA World Services, 1975; text revised 20191 piece · quoted 12 times

Short, practical suggestions for staying sober, from members’ experience.

Where to read it

On the site

The A.A. Service Manual / Twelve Concepts for World ServiceAA World Services (BM-31)1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

How AA’s service structure works, from the group to the General Service Board, bound with Bill W.’s Twelve Concepts.

Where to read it

On the site

Experience, Strength and HopeAA World Services, 20031 piece · quoted 1 time

The stories that later editions dropped from the Big Book, collected in one volume.

Where to read it

On the site

Plain Language Big BookAA World Services, 20241 piece · quoted 1 time

A retelling of the Big Book’s first chapters in plain words, as a companion to it.

Where to read it

On the site

AA pamphlets and service papers

Pamphlets, guides and reports from AA World Services and the General Service Office. Most are free to read at aa.org.

General Service Conference reports and actionsAA’s General Service Conference, 1951 to today6 pieces · 9 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 65 times

What the yearly Conference of AA’s delegates decided, and the reports to members afterward.

Where to read it

AA sends the Final Report to its groups and service members. The pages cite copies that AA’s local areas have posted.

What’s cited

  • Advisory Actions, 1951–2022, as compiled for the areas
  • Final Report of the 70th Conference, 2020
  • Final Report of the 71st Conference, 2021, and its Advisory Actions
  • The 2018 Conference’s actions
  • Items proposed for the 2025 Conference’s agenda that were not forwarded
  • Lists of the 2023–2026 Conferences’ actions and delegates’ reports, with their votes

On the site

Questions & Answers on SponsorshipAA World Services (P-15), revised June 20251 piece · Questions · quoted 22 times

Where to read it

On the site

AA’s press releases and noticesAA World Services and the General Service Office6 pieces · the film · quoted 7 times

What’s cited

On the site

A.A. Membership SurveyAA World Services; the 2022 survey (P-48), and the surveys of 1968 to 20144 pieces · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

The Alcoholic FoundationThe Alcoholic Foundation · P.O. Box 459, New York, 19502 pieces · quoted 8 times

A folded pamphlet telling the groups what the Foundation was and did, with the office’s work in 1949, how the office and the reserve were paid for, a chart, and the fifteen trustees by name.

Where to read it

Undated; it reports 1949 and lists Dr. Bob S. among the trustees. The pages read it from photographs of a copy by Recovery Collectibles, a dealer in AA literature.

On the site

The A.A. GroupAA World Services (P-16), updated 20193 pieces · Questions · quoted 6 times

Where to read it

On the site

A Brief History of the Big BookAA World Services (F-166), 20243 pieces · quoted 5 times

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On the site

Call for stories for the fifth edition of the Big BookAA World Services, 20214 pieces · quoted 1 time

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On the site

Public Information WorkbookAA World Services (M-27i), revised 20241 piece · quoted 1 time

AA’s guide for its public information committees: working with newspapers, radio, television and the internet, with the public information policy of 1956 and the rule of 1968 on full faces.

Where to read it

On the site

The A.A. PreambleAA World Services (SMF-92), and The AA Preamble: Background Information (SMF-127), revised 20211 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · Questions · quoted 7 times

Where to read it

On the site

Many Paths to SpiritualityAA World Services (P-84), 20142 pieces · quoted 4 times

Where to read it

On the site

Is A.A. for You?AA World Services (P-3)1 piece · Questions · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. Around the GlobeAA World Services (SMF-165), 2022, with The International Literature Fund (SMF-219)1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Where to read it

On the site

Origin of the Serenity Prayer: A Historical PaperAA General Service Office (SMF-129), revised 20091 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 11 times

Where to read it

On the site

Suggestions for Leading Beginners MeetingsAA World Services (MU-1), revised 20251 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. at a GlanceAA World Services (F-1), 20241 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Black in A.A.: Experience, Strength and HopeAA World Services (P-51), 20241 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Indigenous People in A.A.AA World Services (P-21), 20251 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

This Is A.A.AA World Services (P-1)1 piece · Questions · quoted 1 time

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On the site

A.A. Guidelines: Relationship Between A.A. and Al-AnonAA World Services (MG-08)1 piece · Questions

Where to read it

On the site

LGBTQ Alcoholics in A.A.AA World Services (P-32), 20181 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Problems Other Than AlcoholBill W. · AA World Services (P-35); first printed in the Grapevine, February 19581 piece · Questions

Where to read it

On the site

The “God” Word: Agnostic and Atheist Members in A.A.AA World Services (P-86), 2018; first published by AA in Great Britain1 piece · Questions

Where to read it

On the site

Understanding AnonymityAA World Services (P-47)1 day of A Daily Reprieve · Questions

Where to read it

On the site

The A.A. Member—Medications and Other DrugsAA World Services (P-11); reprinted as the appendix to Living Sober1 piece · quoted 3 times

AA’s pamphlet on medications, approved in 1984 to replace The A.A. Member and Drug Abuse, which says that no member should “play doctor.”

Where to read it

On the site

The Twelve Concepts for World Service IllustratedAA World Services (P-8), first printed 19861 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. as a Resource for the Health Care ProfessionalAA World Services (P-23)1 piece · quoted 1 time

The pamphlet AA writes for doctors and nurses, which speaks for its members rather than for AA and gives the 1992 definition of alcoholism in a footnote.

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. in Treatment SettingsAA World Services (P-27), 20181 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Conference-Approved LiteratureAA World Services (F-29)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Information on Alcoholics AnonymousAA World Services (F-2)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Self-SupportAA World Services (F-42), 20251 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

The Co-Founders of Alcoholics AnonymousAA World Services (P-53)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Bill W.’s and Dr. Bob’s own stories of how AA began, from their talks.

Where to read it

On the site

A Newcomer AsksAA World Services (P-24)Questions

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. Guidelines: Central or Intergroup OfficesAA World Services (MG-2)1 piece

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. Guidelines: Cooperating with Court, D.W.I. and Similar ProgramsAA World Services (MG-05), with A.A. as a Resource for Drug and Alcohol Court Professionals (SMF-177)Questions

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. Tradition: How It DevelopedBill W. · AA World Services (P-17), printed 2019; Bill W.’s foreword, 19551 day of A Daily Reprieve

A pamphlet of Bill W.’s writings on how the Traditions took shape, with a foreword he wrote in 1955. A day of Daily Reflections takes its passage from it.

Where to read it

On the site

Access to A.A.AA World Services (P-83), 20191 piece

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On the site

Estimates of A.A. Groups and MembersAA World Services (SMF-53), as of December 31, 20211 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Frequently Asked Questions About A.A.AA World Services (P-57)Questions

Where to read it

On the site

Frequently Asked Questions on Practicing the Seventh Tradition at Virtual MeetingsGeneral Service Office (SMF-223), May 20201 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Self-Support: Where Money and Spirituality MixAA World Services (F-3)Questions

Where to read it

On the site

Your A.A. General Service OfficeAA World Services (F-6), 20241 piece

AA’s leaflet on what its office in New York does, including the website, which it says has over 14 million visitors a year.

Where to read it

On the site

The Grapevine and the newsletters

AA’s magazine and the General Service Office’s newsletters, with the issues the site cites. Box 4-5-9, Markings and About AA are free at aa.org; the Grapevine’s archive comes with a subscription.

AA GrapevineAA’s monthly magazine, since June 194414 pieces · 9 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 224 times

AA’s meeting in print: members’ stories and letters, and Bill W.’s articles, every month since 1944.

Where to read it

Issues cited

On the site

Box 4-5-9AA’s General Service Office, since 195610 pieces · the film · 6 days of A Daily Reprieve · Questions · quoted 72 times

The General Service Office’s newsletter to groups: news, letters and Conference reports.

Where to read it

Issues cited

On the site

MarkingsAA’s General Service Office Archives, since 19813 pieces · the film · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 22 times

The newsletter of AA’s archives in New York.

Where to read it

Issues cited

On the site

About AAAA’s General Service Office, a newsletter for professionals, since 19722 pieces · quoted 5 times

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Issues cited

On the site

The PointSan Francisco and Marin Intergroup1 piece · quoted 4 times

Issues cited

On the site

The TipplerMemphis Area Intergroup1 piece · quoted 2 times

Issues cited

On the site

Early pamphlets and other fellowships

Little books AA groups printed for themselves in the 1940s, and the literature of fellowships that took up the Twelve Steps.

At Last A.A.Intergroup Office, A.A. Groups of New Jersey, Newark, between 1948 and 19553 pieces · quoted 13 times

A pamphlet for newcomers from New Jersey’s intergroup office: twelve questions and answers, thirty-five yes-or-no questions it credits to Johns Hopkins, and a word for the Big Book.

Where to read it

Undated. The pages read it from photographs of a copy by Recovery Collectibles, a dealer in AA literature.

On the site

Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism (the magazine)Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, since 20061 piece

Al-Anon’s free magazine for newcomers and professionals, with members’ stories and figures from its membership survey. Not the 1965 book of the same name.

Where to read it

Groups hand it out free.

Issues cited

  • 2026 edition

On the site

The ForumAl-Anon’s monthly magazine, since 19541 piece

Al-Anon’s monthly magazine of members’ sharings, first edited by Margaret D. from 1954.

Where to read it

Issues cited

On the site

A Manual for Alcoholics AnonymousAkron Group No. 1, about 19402 pieces · quoted 20 times

A pocket guide for newcomers, printed by AA in Akron.

Where to read it

On the site

A.A. SponsorshipClarence S. · Cleveland Central Committee, 19442 pieces · quoted 10 times

Where to read it

On the site

World Service Conference SummaryAl-Anon Family Group Headquarters, yearly since 1961 (P-46)1 piece · quoted 2 times

Al-Anon’s yearly record of its World Service Conference: who came, what was said and how the votes went.

Where to read it

Issues cited

On the site

Twenty-Four Hours a DayRichmond W. · Daytona Beach, 1948; Hazelden, since 19541 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Where to read it

On the site

A Guide to the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics AnonymousAkron, 1940s1 piece · quoted 4 times

Where to read it

On the site

Alcoholism, a Merry-Go-Round Named DenialJoseph L. Kellermann · Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, 1969 (P-3)1 piece · quoted 2 times

A minister’s 1968 talk, first given at Al-Anon’s Conference that April and printed from the version he gave Connecticut’s groups in October, comparing alcoholism in a family to a play in three acts; one of the few pieces of Al-Anon literature written by someone outside the fellowship.

Where to read it

Hazelden publishes a revised and expanded edition of its own.

On the site

The Central BulletinCleveland Central Committee, from 19421 piece · quoted 2 times

The monthly bulletin of AA’s Central Committee in Cleveland.

Where to read it

The pages read it from scans posted at silkworth.net.

Issues cited

  • October and December 1942, and 1945

On the site

The Little Red BookEd W., with Barry C. · Coll-Webb, 1946, as An Interpretation of the Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous Program; Hazelden today1 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

Back to Basics: The Alcoholics Anonymous “Beginners Classes”Wally P. · Faith With Works Publishing, 19971 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Did You Grow Up with a Problem Drinker?Al-Anon Family Groups · Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, 1984 (S-25)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Al-Anon’s twenty questions for adults who grew up with drinking at home.

Where to read it

On the site

Information about NA, and Who, What, How, and Why (IP No. 1)Narcotics Anonymous World Services1 piece · quoted 1 time

On the site

Al-Anon Fact Sheet for ProfessionalsAl-Anon Family Groups (S-37)1 piece

On the site

One Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Groups · Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, 1968 (B-6)1 piece

Al-Anon’s first daily reader: a page for each day, with a reminder and a closing quotation.

Where to read it

Sold by Al-Anon’s online store.

On the site

Biographies, memoirs and histories

Books about AA’s people and its world, from publishers other than AA.

Lois RemembersLois W. · Al-Anon Family Groups, 197916 pieces · 11 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 201 times

Lois W.’s memoir of her life with Bill W. and of Al-Anon’s beginnings.

Where to read it

On the site

A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann: The First Lady of Alcoholics AnonymousSally Brown and David R. Brown · Hazelden, 20016 pieces · 5 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 148 times

Where to read it

On the site

Sister Ignatia: Angel of Alcoholics AnonymousMary C. Darrah · Loyola University Press, 1992; second edition, Hazelden, 20016 pieces · the film · 2 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 102 times

The biography of Sister Ignatia.

Where to read it

On the site

Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.Mel B. · Hazelden, 19986 pieces · 2 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 153 times

Mel B.’s biography of Ebby T., drawn from Ebby’s letters and recollections and from people who knew him.

Where to read it

On the site

Heroes of Early Black AA: Their Stories and Their MessagesGlenn C. · Hindsfoot Foundation, 20174 pieces · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 10 times

Where to read it

On the site

Many Voices, One JourneyAl-Anon Family Groups · Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, 2011 (B-31)1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 104 times

Al-Anon’s own history, from 1925 to 2010, written in short pieces that can be read aloud at a meeting, many with questions for discussion.

Where to read it

On the site

Frank Buchman: A LifeGarth Lean · Constable, 1985; published in the U.S. in 1988 as On the Tail of a Comet1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 76 times

A life of Frank Buchman by one of his followers, and the site’s main source for the Oxford Group’s side of its own story.

Where to read it

On the site

Father Ed Dowling: Bill Wilson’s SponsorGlenn C. · May 1, 2015, posted in his archive at Indiana University South Bend1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 42 times

A long life of Father Ed Dowling, from his boyhood in St. Louis to his death in 1960, quoting many of his letters.

Where to read it

The pages quote the online text.

On the site

Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Twelve Steps as a Spiritual Journey of IndividuationIan McCabe · Karnac, 2015; Routledge, 20184 pieces · quoted 26 times

A reading of the Twelve Steps in Carl Jung’s terms, quoting letters between Bill W. and Jung’s circle, 1945–61, from AA’s archives.

Where to read it

On the site

Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved DrunksDale Mitchel · Hazelden, 20022 pieces · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 12 times

The biography of Dr. William D. Silkworth.

Where to read it

Out of print.

On the site

The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James · Longmans, Green, 19021 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 36 times

William James’s lectures on religion at Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902, built from the words of people who said they had been changed, drunkards among them. The book reached Bill W. at Towns Hospital in December 1934.

Where to read it

On the site

Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933–1939: A.A.’s Principles of SuccessDick B. · Good Book Publishing, 1992; revised edition, Paradise Research Publications, 19941 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 9 times

Prints much of Anne S.’s Oxford Group notebook, from a copy AA’s archives sent the author and her daughter, Sue, in 1991.

Where to read it

First published as Anne Smith’s Spiritual Workbook.

On the site

The Road to Fellowship: The Role of the Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club in the Development of Alcoholics AnonymousRichard M. Dubiel · iUniverse, 20041 piece · quoted 8 times

A history of the Emmanuel Movement and its part in AA’s beginnings, with a chapter on Rowland H. drawn from his family’s papers.

Where to read it

The pages quote it as excerpted on the AA History Lovers list (messages 1821, 1822 and 4355) and haven’t yet checked it against the book.

On the site

Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill WilsonFrancis Hartigan · St. Martin’s Press, 20004 pieces

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from reports of what it says; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

My Name Is BillSusan Cheever · Simon & Schuster, 20043 pieces

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from excerpts and reports of what it says; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S.J. and Bill Wilson in LettersRobert Fitzgerald, S.J. · Hazelden, 19952 pieces

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from later writers; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

The Holy Bible (King James Version)16114 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 4 times

Where to read it

On the site

The Collected Ernie KurtzErnest Kurtz · Hindsfoot Foundation, 2008 (first published 1999)2 pieces · quoted 6 times

Essays by AA’s best-known historian, including “Drugs and the Spiritual: Bill W. Takes LSD.”

Where to read it

On the site

Twice-Born MinistersSamuel M. Shoemaker Jr. · 19291 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 3 times

Sam Shoemaker’s second book of changed lives, after Children of the Second Birth.

Where to read it

On the site

Grateful to Have Been There: My Forty-two Years with Bill and Lois, and the Evolution of Alcoholics AnonymousNell Wing · Parkside, 1992; second edition, Hazelden, 19981 piece · 2 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 2 times

The memoir of Nell Wing, who came to work in AA’s office in 1947 and later became its archivist.

Where to read it

On the site

Bill W.Robert Thomsen · Harper & Row, 19751 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics AnonymousHazelden, 20103 pieces · quoted 1 time

A facsimile of one prepublication copy of the Big Book, with the edits marked on it before the book went to press.

Where to read it

On the site

Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in AmericaWilliam L. White · Chestnut Health Systems, 1998; second edition, 20141 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Calvary Church Yesterday and Today: A Centennial HistorySamuel M. Shoemaker Jr. · Fleming H. Revell, 19362 pieces · quoted 10 times

Sam Shoemaker’s history of his New York parish, with Calvary Mission and Calvary House.

Where to read it

On the site

The San Quentin StoryClinton T. Duffy, as told to Dean Jennings · Doubleday, 19502 pieces · quoted 8 times

The memoir of the warden who let AA into San Quentin in 1942.

Where to read it

On the site

Soul-Surgery: Some Thoughts on Incisive Personal WorkH. A. Walter · Association Press, Calcutta, 1919; reprinted 19211 piece · quoted 7 times

Frank Buchman’s way of working with one person at a time, written up by a YMCA man who had worked beside him in Asia.

Where to read it

On the site

What Is the Oxford Group?The Layman with a Notebook · Oxford University Press, 19331 piece · quoted 7 times

The Group’s handbook, with a chapter for each of its practices: sharing, surrender, restitution, guidance and the four absolutes.

Where to read it

On the site

Life ChangersHarold Begbie · Mills & Boon, 1923; new edition, Putnam, 19271 piece · quoted 1 time

Frank Buchman’s work as Buchman told it, with Buchman as “F. B.,” the soul surgeon, and the earliest telling of Keswick from Buchman himself.

Where to read it

On the site

Religion That WorksSamuel M. Shoemaker Jr. · Fleming H. Revell, 19281 piece · quoted 1 time

Sermons from Calvary Church on practical Christian life.

Where to read it

On the site

Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics AnonymousNan Robertson · William Morrow, 19882 pieces

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from reports of what it says; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

Willmar Regional Treatment Center History 1912–1987Willmar Regional Treatment Center, 19871 piece · quoted 6 times

Where to read it

On the site

For Sinners OnlyA. J. Russell · Hodder & Stoughton and Harper, 19321 piece · quoted 4 times

An account of the Oxford Group from the inside, written in 1932.

Where to read it

On the site

Remaking a Man: One Successful Method of Mental RefittingCourtenay Baylor · Moffat, Yard and Company, 19191 piece · quoted 3 times

A lay therapist of the Emmanuel Movement on his method with drinkers, whom Rowland H.’s family paid in 1933 and 1934.

Where to read it

On the site

When Man ListensCecil Rose · Oxford University Press, New York, 19371 piece · quoted 3 times

An Oxford Group book on quiet time: writing down the thoughts that come, and testing them.

Where to read it

On the site

Children of the Second BirthSamuel M. Shoemaker Jr. · Fleming H. Revell, 19271 piece · quoted 2 times

Changed lives in Sam Shoemaker’s parish, Calvary Church in New York.

Where to read it

On the site

The Conversion of the ChurchSamuel M. Shoemaker Jr. · Fleming H. Revell, 19321 piece · quoted 2 times

Sam Shoemaker on the Oxford Group’s way, with a chapter on guidance, “Living in Touch with God.”

Where to read it

On the site

Hazelden: A Spiritual OdysseyDamian McElrath · Hazelden, 19871 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

The site quotes it as another site quotes it; not seen first-hand.

On the site

Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a DiseaseHerbert Fingarette · University of California Press, 19881 piece · quoted 1 time

A philosopher’s book arguing, as its publisher puts it, that research had discredited the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause.

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from its publisher’s description and reports of what it says; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

The History of the First Inebriate Asylum in the World, by Its FounderJ. Edward Turner · published by the author, New York, 18881 piece · quoted 1 time

The founder’s own history of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, with his address of 1854 to its trustees.

Where to read it

On the site

The Treatment of Drinking Problems: A Guide for the Helping ProfessionsGriffith Edwards, E. Jane Marshall and Christopher C. H. Cook · fourth edition, Cambridge University Press, 20031 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Addiction: A Disorder of ChoiceGene M. Heyman · Harvard University Press, 20091 piece

Where to read it

The site uses only its title.

On the site

Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.’s Spiritual SponsorDawn Eden Goldstein · Orbis Books, 20221 piece

A biography of Father Ed Dowling.

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from her 2023 articles drawn from it; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary LivesWilliam R. Miller and Janet C’de Baca · Guilford Press, 20011 piece

Two researchers at the University of New Mexico on 55 people whose lives changed in a short time, in a flash of understanding or a sense of being acted on by something greater.

Where to read it

On the site

Semi-Centennial: Some of the Life and Part of the Opinions of Leonard BaconLeonard Bacon · Harper & Brothers, 19391 piece

The memoir of the poet who sent his cousin Rowland H. to Carl Jung.

Where to read it

The site quotes it as Cora Finch quotes it.

On the site

Seven Came Through (Rickenbacker’s Full Story)Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker · Doubleday, Doran, 19431 day of A Daily Reprieve

Eddie Rickenbacker’s own account of the B-17 that came down in the Pacific in October 1942, and the weeks on the rafts.

Where to read it

On the site

The Barlow Story: An Illustrated History of Barlow Respiratory Hospital, 1902–1922W. Robert Finegan · Barlow Respiratory Hospital, 19921 piece

Where to read it

The site quotes it as Brown and Brown quote it.

On the site

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a DiseaseMarc Lewis · PublicAffairs, 20151 piece

A neuroscientist’s book arguing, as its title says, that addiction is not a disease.

Where to read it

The site uses only its title.

On the site

The Disease Concept of AlcoholismE. M. Jellinek · Hillhouse Press, 19601 piece

Where to read it

On the site

The Natural HistoryPliny the Elder · translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley, Henry G. Bohn, 1855–18571 day of A Daily Reprieve

The Roman encyclopedia of the first century, whose book on painting tells of Apelles and the shoemaker.

Where to read it

On the site

The New Yale Book of QuotationsFred R. Shapiro, editor · Yale University Press, 20211 piece

Where to read it

On the site

The Roots of Alcoholics AnonymousBill Pittman · first published as AA: The Way It Began, Glen Abbey Books, 19881 piece

Where to read it

Out of print.

On the site

The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and WarElisabeth Sifton · W. W. Norton, 20031 piece

Where to read it

On the site

The Story Behind the Little Red BookDamian McElrath · Hazelden, 20141 piece

Where to read it

The site uses only the publisher’s description of it. Out of print.

On the site

Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.William Schaberg · Central Recovery Press, 20191 piece

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from reports of what it says; not yet checked against the book.

On the site

Papers, studies and reports

Medical papers, historians’ papers, studies, hearings and government reports.

“A Narrative Timeline of AA History”Arthur S. · Arlington, Texas; versions from 2009 to 20148 pieces · 9 days of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 5 times

A year-by-year timeline of AA’s history, compiled by a member, with each entry tied to a written source.

Where to read it

The site works from the 2009 version. The 2014 public version corrects some entries, among them Anne S.’s birthplace.

On the site

“Stellar Fire: Carl Jung, a New England Family, and the Risks of Anecdote”Cora Finch · stellarfire.org, 2006–07, last updated May 20081 piece · quoted 43 times

A researcher’s account of Rowland H. and his family, built from their letters at Yale and in Providence, which placed his time with Carl Jung in 1926.

Where to read it

The site no longer exists; the pages read it in the Internet Archive’s copy.

On the site

“The Society of Alcoholics Anonymous”Bill W. · American Journal of Psychiatry 106 (1949)2 pieces · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Bill W.’s paper to the American Psychiatric Association at Montreal, May 1949.

Where to read it

The pages read it as transcribed at silkworth.net.

On the site

Bill W., talk and answers to questions, National Clergy Conference on Alcoholism, April 1960the conference’s “Blue Book,” vol. 12, 1960, with “Question Period: A Synopsis”3 pieces · quoted 16 times

Bill W.’s talk to the yearly conference of priests on alcoholism, after which he explained why AA had always called alcoholism an illness or a malady, “a far safer term for us to use.”

Where to read it

The pages read it as transcribed at silkworth.net.

On the site

“Verification of C. G. Jung’s Analysis of Rowland Hazard and the History of Alcoholics Anonymous”Amy Colwell Bluhm · History of Psychology 9, no. 4 (November 2006): 313–3241 piece · quoted 15 times

A paper placing Rowland H.’s first analysis with Carl Jung in 1926, printing at length the letters of Jung, Rowland and his family that show it.

Where to read it

On the site

“Basic Concepts of Alcoholics Anonymous”Bill W. · New York State Journal of Medicine, August 19442 pieces · quoted 4 times

Bill W.’s talk to the Medical Society of the State of New York in May 1944, which calls alcoholism “a complex malady.”

Where to read it

The pages read it as transcribed at silkworth.net.

On the site

“The First Edition Big Book: A Printing-by-Printing History (1939–1954)”Tim Fitzpatrick · Recovery Collectibles, 20264 pieces

Where to read it

On the site

“William D. Silkworth, M.D., and the Origin and Development of Alcoholics Anonymous”J. D. McPeake · The Dublin Group, 20121 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Powell v. TexasU.S. Supreme Court · 392 U.S. 514, 19682 pieces · quoted 18 times

Where to read it

On the site

The Impact of AlcoholismSpecial Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics, U.S. Senate · hearings of July 23–25, 19692 pieces · quoted 12 times

The Senate hearings at which Marty M. testified, on July 24.

Where to read it

On the site

“Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs for alcohol use disorder”John F. Kelly, Keith Humphreys and Marica Ferri · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 20202 pieces · the film

A review of the studies of AA’s results.

Where to read it

On the site

“Remembrances of LSD Therapy Past”Betty Grover Eisner · memoir dated August 7, 20022 pieces · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

“A New Approach to Psychotherapy in Chronic Alcoholism”W. D. Silkworth · Journal-Lancet 59, July 19392 pieces · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

“Big Book History and Myths”Arthur S.1 piece

On the site

Culture, Alcohol and Society QuarterlyBrown University Library1 piece

A quarterly from Brown University Library’s alcohol and addiction collection, where the historian Jared Lobdell wrote about Cebra G.’s 1954 conversation with Bill W.

Issues cited

On the site

“The Earliest Printings of Richmond Walker’s Twenty-Four Hours a Day”Glenn C. · South Bend, Indiana, undated1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

On the site

The Work of the Charles B. Towns Hospitalbrochure, January 19181 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Therapeutic Mechanisms of Alcoholics Anonymous”Harry M. Tiebout · American Journal of Psychiatry, January 19442 pieces

A psychiatrist’s early paper on why AA worked. AA Comes of Age reprints it in Appendix E, as “Therapeutic Mechanism of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Phases in the Drinking History of Alcoholics: Analysis of a Survey Conducted by the Official Organ of Alcoholics Anonymous”E. M. Jellinek · Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 7 (1946)1 piece · quoted 13 times

Jellinek’s analysis of the Grapevine’s questionnaire of 1945, from the answers of 98 men in AA, in which he drew the drinking history in phases.

Where to read it

The pages quote it from a copy posted at aaagnostica.org.

On the site

“Catholic Asceticism and the Twelve Steps”Edward Dowling, S.J. · National Clergy Conference on Alcoholism, Blue Book, 19531 piece · quoted 12 times

Father Ed Dowling’s talk to a conference of priests in April 1953, setting the Twelve Steps beside the Spiritual Exercises.

Where to read it

The pages read it as transcribed on the AA History Lovers list (message 1322), and as Glenn C. quotes it.

On the site

“Narcotics Anonymous: Its History and Culture”William L. White, Chris Budnick and Boyd Pickard · abridged chapter for Slaying the Dragon, second edition; with “Narcotics Anonymous: New Beginnings,” Counselor, 20111 piece · quoted 11 times

On the site

The American Medical Association’s statements on alcoholism, 1956–1967American Medical Association · Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956; House of Delegates Proceedings, 1966 and 19671 piece · quoted 11 times

What the AMA put on record about alcoholism: an illness in 1956, a disease in 1966, and a complex disease in a resolution of 1967.

Where to read it

The pages read all three in scans posted by Chestnut Health Systems’ William White Library.

What’s cited

  • October 20, 1956 · Council on Mental Health, “Hospitalization of Patients with Alcoholism,” in the Reports of Officers, JAMA; adopted by the House of Delegates at Seattle that November
  • 1966 · Council on Medical Service Report G, “Recommendation for the Admission of Alcoholics to General Hospitals – Reaffirmation of the 1956 Statement,” House of Delegates Proceedings, Clinical Convention
  • 1967 · Resolution No. 48, “Alcoholism,” introduced by the Colorado delegation, House of Delegates Proceedings, Clinical Convention

On the site

Traynor v. TurnageU.S. Supreme Court · 485 U.S. 535, 19881 piece · quoted 9 times

The Supreme Court’s ruling of 1988, four votes to three, upholding the Veterans Administration’s rule that “primary” alcoholism is willful misconduct, without deciding whether alcoholism is a disease.

Where to read it

On the site

“Temperance Address”Abraham Lincoln · Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842; in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler1 piece · quoted 7 times

Lincoln’s speech to the Washingtonians, the temperance movement of reformed drinkers.

Where to read it

On the site

“Dangerous data: drinking after dependence”Mike Ashton · Society for the Study of Addiction, August–September 20211 piece · quoted 6 times

Mike Ashton’s history of the controversy over controlled drinking, written in parts for the Society for the Study of Addiction in 2021.

What’s cited

On the site

“The Washingtonian Movement”Milton A. Maxwell · Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 11, 19501 piece · quoted 6 times

Where to read it

On the site

“Individualized Behavior Therapy for Alcoholics”Mark B. Sobell and Linda C. Sobell · Behavior Therapy 4 (1973), with the follow-ups and the Sobells’ later papers1 piece · quoted 5 times

The Sobells’ study at Patton State Hospital in California, where 40 of 70 men were given a goal of controlled drinking.

Where to read it

The site uses the papers’ abstracts.

What’s cited

On the site

“The Definition of Alcoholism”Robert M. Morse and Daniel K. Flavin, for the Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine · JAMA 268, no. 8 (August 26, 1992)1 piece · quoted 5 times

The definition a committee of the two bodies settled on in 1992, calling alcoholism “a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Addiction Treatment in the United States: Early Pioneers and Institutions”William L. White · Addiction 97 (2002)1 piece · quoted 4 times

The historian William White on America’s first era of addiction treatment, from the Keeley Institutes and their patient-run Keeley Leagues to what he calls its “virtual collapse.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Alcoholics Anonymous and the Disease Concept of Alcoholism”Ernest Kurtz · Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 20, no. 3/4 (2002)1 piece · quoted 4 times

The historian Ernest Kurtz’s argument that AA “neither originated nor promulgated” the idea that alcoholism is a disease, though its members spread it.

Where to read it

The pages quote the author’s manuscript, as posted at prestongroup.org.

On the site

An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and MindBenjamin Rush · Philadelphia, 1780s; sixth edition, Cornelius Davis, New York, 18111 piece · quoted 4 times

Dr. Benjamin Rush’s pamphlet on what strong drink did to the body and to society, whose enlarged editions call drunkenness a disease outright.

Where to read it

On the site

The Perfect Keeley CureC. S. Clark · third edition, Milwaukee, 18931 piece · quoted 4 times

A Keeley graduate’s account of the gold cure at Dwight, Illinois, where every patient lined up four times a day for an injection.

Where to read it

On the site

“Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience”Markus Heilig and others · Neuropsychopharmacology 46 (2021)1 piece · quoted 3 times

Six researchers’ defense of the brain disease model, granting that some criticisms of it “have merit.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters”Alan I. Leshner · Science 278 (October 3, 1997); and “Addiction Is a Brain Disease,” Issues in Science and Technology 17, no. 3 (Spring 2001)1 piece · quoted 3 times

The argument of the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse that addiction is a brain disease, and that it matters, with his essay of 2001.

Where to read it

On the site

Driver v. HinnantU.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 356 F.2d 761, 19661 piece · quoted 3 times

The appeals court ruling of January 1966 that Joe Driver, a chronic alcoholic convicted of public drunkenness more than 200 times, couldn’t be punished as a criminal for it, though the state could hold him for treatment.

Where to read it

On the site

Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of AddictionNational Institute on Drug Abuse · revised July 20181 piece · quoted 3 times

The drug institute’s booklet on the science of addiction, which calls it “a chronic, relapsing disorder” that “is considered a brain disorder.”

Where to read it

On the site

Project MATCHNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · 1990s1 piece · quoted 3 times

A large study comparing three kinds of treatment, one of them meant to get people to AA.

What’s cited

On the site

38 U.S.C. § 1110U.S. Congress · “Basic entitlement,” with its note on the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101-508, § 80521 piece · quoted 2 times

The law on veterans’ disability pay, which since 1990 bars compensation for a disability that results from the veteran’s “abuse of alcohol or drugs.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Addiction and the Brain-Disease Fallacy”Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld · Frontiers in Psychiatry 4 (2013), published March 20141 piece · quoted 2 times

A psychiatrist and a psychologist arguing that the brain-disease model “obscures the dimension of choice in addiction.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Addiction: Not just brain malfunction”Derek Heim and others · letter, Nature 507 (March 6, 2014)1 piece · quoted 2 times

A letter to Nature from about ninety scientists who disagreed with its “one-dimensional view that addiction is a disease.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Alano Society of Minneapolis Clubhouse”National Register of Historic Places nomination, 20211 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

Alcoholism and TreatmentDavid J. Armor, J. Michael Polich and Harriet B. Stambul (later Braiker) · RAND Corporation, R-1739-NIAAA, 19761 piece · quoted 2 times

RAND’s report for the federal alcoholism institute that found about 70 percent of treated alcoholics in remission, counting some drinking within a normal range.

Where to read it

On the site

An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and Its Effects on the Human BodyThomas Trotter · Longman and Rees, London, 18041 piece · quoted 2 times

A whole book on drunkenness by a former physician to Britain’s Channel Fleet, who considered it, strictly speaking, a disease.

Where to read it

On the site

Annual Report 2017The Oxford Group · for the year ended 31 December 20171 piece · quoted 2 times

The yearly report of the British charity that works under the name Initiatives of Change and is still, in law, the Oxford Group.

Where to read it

On the site

“Diagnostic Criteria for Alcohol Abuse and Dependence”National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · Alcohol Alert No. 30, October 19951 piece · quoted 2 times

The federal alcohol institute’s bulletin on the diagnostic manuals, which notes that DSM-III dropped the word alcoholism for alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.

Where to read it

On the site

Easter v. District of ColumbiaU.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · 361 F.2d 50, 19661 piece · quoted 2 times

The appeals court ruling of March 1966, in DeWitt Easter’s case, that chronic alcoholism is a defense to a charge of public intoxication.

Where to read it

On the site

“Experimental Study on Alcoholics with an ‘Inability to Stop’”Juan Marconi, Klaus Fink and Laura Moya · British Journal of Psychiatry 113 (1967)1 piece · quoted 2 times

Three researchers’ study of 1967, which sums up the two kinds of alcoholism Jellinek counted as diseases as an “inability to stop” and an “inability to abstain.”

Where to read it

On the site

MinutesAmerican Association for the Cure of Inebriates · 18711 piece · quoted 2 times

The proceedings of the meeting in New York, November 1870, at which the doctors running the new inebriate homes and asylums formed the association, with its Declaration of Principles.

Where to read it

On the site

“Narcotics Anonymous Chronology, Volume One, 1892–1976”Christopher K. Budnick, H. Boyd Pickard and William L. White · second edition, October 20131 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

Task Force Report: DrunkennessPresident’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice · Government Printing Office, 19671 piece · quoted 2 times

The presidential commission’s report that counted two million arrests for public drunkenness in 1965 and recommended that drunkenness not in itself be a crime.

Where to read it

On the site

The Course of Alcoholism: Four Years After TreatmentJ. Michael Polich, David J. Armor and Harriet B. Braiker · RAND Corporation, R-2433-NIAAA, 19801 piece · quoted 2 times

RAND’s four-year follow-up of 922 men, which found about half in remission, but remissions “generally intermittent rather than stable.”

Where to read it

On the site

“The first Roman Catholics in AA”Glenn C. · September 3, 20111 piece · quoted 2 times

On the site

“The Rebirth of the Disease Concept of Alcoholism in the 20th Century”William L. White · Counselor 1, no. 2 (2000)1 piece · quoted 2 times

William White’s history of the disease concept’s return in the twentieth century, quoted here on Jellinek’s book of 1960.

Where to read it

On the site

“A Detailed History of JACS, 1979–2004”JACS · March 20041 piece · quoted 1 time

On the site

Allen v. PrincipiU.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 237 F.3d 1368, 20011 piece · quoted 1 time

The appeals court ruling of 2001 that the bar of 1990 doesn’t stop compensation for alcohol abuse “secondary to a service-connected disability.”

Where to read it

On the site

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990U.S. Congress · 42 U.S.C. § 12114, “Illegal use of drugs and alcohol”1 piece · quoted 1 time

The section of the disabilities law that lets an employer hold an alcoholic employee to the same standards as other employees.

Where to read it

On the site

Annotated List of Past Activities on Alcoholism in Maryland, 1935–1960 (Published and Unpublished)Maryland Commission on Alcoholism · February 17, 19611 piece · quoted 1 time

The Maryland commission’s list of the state’s work on alcoholism, which credits Dr. Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins with a liquor test of thirty-five questions in 1945.

Where to read it

On the site

Brief for the Respondents in Opposition, Traynor v. Turnage and McKelvey v. TurnageSolicitor General of the United States · Supreme Court, Nos. 86-622 and 86-737, February 19871 piece · quoted 1 time

The government’s brief against the two veterans’ petitions, which quotes the GI Bill’s ten-year limit and its exception for a disability not caused by the veteran’s own willful misconduct.

Where to read it

On the site

City of Grants Pass v. JohnsonU.S. Supreme Court · No. 23-175, June 28, 20241 piece · quoted 1 time

The Supreme Court’s ruling of 2024 upholding an Oregon city’s ban on camping in public, which leaned on Powell v. Texas.

Where to read it

On the site

Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental DisordersWorld Health Organization · 20241 piece · quoted 1 time

The World Health Organization’s diagnostic guide to the eleventh revision of its classification, which files drinking under “Disorders due to use of alcohol.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Controlled Drinking by Alcoholics? New Findings and a Reevaluation of a Major Affirmative Study”Mary L. Pendery, Irving M. Maltzman and L. Jolyon West · Science 217 (July 9, 1982)1 piece · quoted 1 time

A reexamination of the Sobells’ twenty men trained in controlled drinking, which found that only one had kept it up and four had died of alcohol-related causes.

Where to read it

On the site

“Cultural Reconstruction in the Shuswap Community of Alkali Lake”Marcelle Gareau · master’s thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 19911 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

“Decriminalization of Public Drunkenness: Response of the Health Care System”Peter Finn · Journal of Studies on Alcohol 46, no. 1 (1985)1 piece · quoted 1 time

A study that counted thirty-four jurisdictions that had fully put the Uniform Act in place by 1985, and found two of its main goals “only imperfectly achieved.”

Where to read it

On the site

“Definition of Addiction”American Society of Addiction Medicine · 2019; and its public policy statement of 20111 piece · quoted 1 time

The addiction doctors’ definition, which wrote the brain into it in 2011 and in 2019 called addiction “a treatable, chronic medical disease.”

Where to read it

On the site

Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General · November 20161 piece · quoted 1 time

The Surgeon General’s report of 2016, which calls addiction “a chronic brain disease that has the potential for both recurrence (relapse) and recovery.”

Where to read it

On the site

“History of Drug Problems and Drug Policies in America”William L. White · in R. Coombs, ed., Addiction Counseling Review, Lahaska Press, 20041 piece · quoted 1 time

William White’s history of America’s drug problems and policies, which counts six causes for the collapse of the first era of addiction treatment.

Where to read it

On the site

“Individualized Behavior Therapy for Alcoholics: A Third Year Independent Double-Blind Follow-Up”G. R. Caddy, H. J. Addington and D. Perkins · Behaviour Research and Therapy 16 (1978)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Other researchers’ third-year follow-up of the Sobells’ patients, billed in its title as independent and double-blind.

Where to read it

The site uses only its title.

On the site

“Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction”Nora D. Volkow, George F. Koob and A. Thomas McLellan · New England Journal of Medicine 374 (January 28, 2016)1 piece · quoted 1 time

A review by the heads of the federal drug and alcohol institutes, with A. Thomas McLellan, concluding that neuroscience continues to support the brain disease model of addiction.

Where to read it

On the site

“New York State Inebriate Asylum”National Park Service · National Historic Landmark nomination1 piece · quoted 1 time

The landmark nomination for the asylum at Binghamton, which it calls the first hospital in the United States designed and built to treat alcoholism as a disease.

Where to read it

On the site

“Normal Drinking in Recovered Alcohol Addicts”D. L. Davies · Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 23 (1962)1 piece · quoted 1 time

D. L. Davies’s report on 93 former patients of London’s Maudsley Hospital, seven of whom had been drinking without trouble for seven to eleven years.

Where to read it

The pages quote it as Mike Ashton quotes it.

On the site

Robinson v. CaliforniaU.S. Supreme Court · 370 U.S. 660, 19621 piece · quoted 1 time

The Supreme Court’s ruling that a California law making it a crime to be addicted to narcotics was cruel and unusual punishment.

Where to read it

On the site

“Rowland Hazard (1881–1945)”Mike O. · The Roundtable of AA History, April 12, 1998, revised through 20011 piece · quoted 1 time

An AA member’s essay on Rowland H., drawn from his family’s papers in Providence.

Where to read it

The pages read it as reposted on the AA History Lovers list (message 1807, May 2004).

On the site

“Some Implications of the Rand Alcoholism and Treatment Study for Alcoholism Research”Harriet B. Stambul and J. Michael Polich · RAND Corporation, P-5997, August 19771 piece · quoted 1 time

A RAND paper with the eighteen-month figures from the report of 1976, and the National Council on Alcoholism’s answer to it.

Where to read it

On the site

“Spirituality in recovery: a lagged mediational analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous’ principal theoretical mechanism of behavior change”John F. Kelly, Robert L. Stout, Molly Magill, J. Scott Tonigan and Maria E. Pagano · Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 35 (2011)1 piece · quoted 1 time

A study of 1,726 people in Project MATCH on whether spiritual practice carries part of AA’s effect on drinking.

Where to read it

On the site

“The Classification of Substance Use Disorders: Historical, Contextual, and Conceptual Considerations”Sean M. Robinson and Bryon Adinoff · Behavioral Sciences 6, no. 3 (2016)1 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

“The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America”Harry G. Levine · Journal of Studies on Alcohol 39 (1978)1 piece · quoted 1 time

The historian Harry Levine on how the drunkard came to be seen as the victim of a disease, then as a pest, until AA and Yale brought the idea’s “rediscovery.”

Where to read it

The pages quote it from a copy posted at tomfeiling.com.

On the site

“The Survival of a Fitting Quotation”Michael StGeorge · anonpress.org, edition 1.11 piece · quoted 1 time

A study of the quotation that closes the Big Book’s Appendix II, tracing it through the 1939 story “An Artist’s Concept” to William Paley in 1794.

Where to read it

On the site

Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment ActNational Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws · 1971; as introduced in Maine, Legislative Document 76, 19731 piece · quoted 1 time

The model state law of 1971 under which alcoholics and intoxicated persons may not be prosecuted solely for drinking.

Where to read it

On the site

Veterans’ Benefits and Programs Improvement Act of 1988U.S. Congress · Public Law 100-689, November 18, 19881 piece · quoted 1 time

The law of November 1988 under which the disabling effects of chronic alcoholism no longer count as willful misconduct for the deadlines on veterans’ education and rehabilitation benefits.

Where to read it

On the site

“A Brief History of A.A. in Detroit”Cliff M.1 piece

On the site

“A comparison of DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and ICD-10 substance use disorders diagnoses in 1922 men and women subjects in the COGA study”Marc A. Schuckit and others · Addiction 89 (1994)1 piece

Where to read it

The pages read it in a copy posted by the COGA study’s laboratory at SUNY Downstate.

On the site

“Alcoholism as a Manifestation of Allergy”W. D. Silkworth · Medical Record, March 17, 19371 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Atheists, agnostics and Alcoholics Anonymous”J. Scott Tonigan, William R. Miller and Carol Schermer · Journal of Studies on Alcohol 63 (2002)1 piece

How atheists and agnostics in a large treatment study went to AA and fared, beside believers.

Where to read it

On the site

“Brain Change in Addiction as Learning, Not Disease”Marc Lewis · New England Journal of Medicine 379 (October 18, 2018)1 piece

Marc Lewis’s review of the brain research, which followed his book.

Where to read it

The site uses only its title.

On the site

“Group therapy in alcoholism”Max M. Glatt · British Journal of Addiction 54, no. 2 (July 1958)1 piece

The paper in which Max Glatt, of Warlingham Park Hospital in England, added a climb back up to Jellinek’s phases, the chart now called the Jellinek curve.

Where to read it

The site’s use of it comes from the Rutgers alcohol studies archive’s account; not yet checked against the paper.

On the site

“Growth of Central Offices”Mitchell K. · posted online, 20071 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“History of the Concept of Addiction”Peter E. Nathan, Mandy Conrad and Anne Helene Skinstad · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 12 (2016)1 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Hitler and Buchman”Reinhold Niebuhr · The Christian Century, October 7, 1936; reprinted in his Christianity and Power Politics, Scribner, 19401 piece

A theologian’s answer to Frank Buchman’s 1936 interview about Hitler.

Where to read it

On the site

Incorporating Alcohol Pharmacotherapies Into Medical PracticeSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration · Treatment Improvement Protocol 49, 20091 piece

A federal treatment guide to the medicines for alcohol dependence, which tells how disulfiram’s effect was found by accident in Copenhagen in 1947.

Where to read it

On the site

“Investigations of an Allergic Factor in Alcohol Addiction”Margaret W. Robinson and Walter L. Voegtlin · Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 13, 19521 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Is Alcoholics Anonymous religious, spiritual, neither? Findings from 25 years of mechanisms of behavior change research”John F. Kelly · Addiction 112 (2017)1 piece

A review of 25 years of research on how AA works, finding that for most members it works through social, thinking and emotional changes.

Where to read it

On the site

“Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for alcoholism: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials”Teri S. Krebs and Pål-Ørjan Johansen · Journal of Psychopharmacology 26 (2012)1 piece

A pooled look at six trials of LSD for alcoholism from 1966 to 1970.

Where to read it

On the site

“Notes of the Jungle Plant (Combretum Sundiacum)”W. Duncan Silkworth · New York Medical Journal, May 30, 1908, and a further report, January 16, 19091 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Percentage of Heavy Drinking Days Following Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy vs Placebo in the Treatment of Adult Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder”Michael P. Bogenschutz and others · JAMA Psychiatry 79 (2022)1 piece

A trial of 95 people with alcohol use disorder, all given the same therapy, comparing psilocybin with an antihistamine as a placebo.

Where to read it

On the site

“Proceedings of the Atlantic City Session”American Medical Association · JAMA, 19351 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Prohibited or regulated? LSD psychotherapy and the United States Food and Drug Administration”Matthew Oram · History of Psychiatry 27 (2016)1 piece

A history of how LSD research in the United States was regulated, including Sandoz’s withdrawal of the drug in 1966.

Where to read it

On the site

“Psilocybin-assisted treatment for alcohol dependence: a proof-of-concept study”Michael P. Bogenschutz and others · Journal of Psychopharmacology 29 (2015)1 piece

A study of ten people with alcohol dependence given psilocybin, with no comparison group.

Where to read it

On the site

“Reclamation of the Alcoholic”W. D. Silkworth · Medical Record, April 21, 19371 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“The Big Book Is Published”Mitchell K.1 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“The Combined Addiction Disease Chronologies”William White, Ernest Kurtz and Caroline Acker1 piece

Where to read it

The pages read its years 1956 to 1965 in a scan posted at silkworth.net.

On the site

“The Eighth Amendment and Homelessness: Supreme Court Upholds Camping Ordinances in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson”Congressional Research Service · Legal Sidebar LSB11203, July 19, 20241 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“The Oxford Group Connection”Ray R. · dated 1959; posted online in 19951 piece

A member’s history of AA’s ties to the Oxford Group, which takes its Firestone story from Dick B.’s The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Where to read it

On the site

“The role of religion, spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous in sustained sobriety”Lee Ann Kaskutas, N. Turk, Jason Bond and Constance Weisner · Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 21 (2003)1 piece

A three-year study of people entering treatment, on spiritual awakenings and staying sober.

Where to read it

On the site

“The Vitamin B-3 Therapy”Bill W. · his first communication to AA’s physicians, December 19651 piece

Where to read it

On the site

U.S. Public Health Service Hospital: Lexington, KentuckyU.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare · 19631 piece

Where to read it

On the site

“Willmar Hospital Farm for Inebriates, Auditorium-Gymnasium”Historic American Buildings Survey · HABS MN-148-A, 19941 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Newspapers and magazines

News stories and magazine articles, in print or online.

Time4 pieces · quoted 22 times

Issues cited

On the site

Catholic Digest1 piece · quoted 5 times

Where to read it

The pages read the article in a transcription at silkworth.net.

Issues cited

  • April 1991 · Robert Fitzgerald, S.J., “Father Ed and A.A.’s Bill W.”

On the site

The Fix2 pieces · quoted 2 times

Issues cited

On the site

The Sign2 pieces · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

The New York Times2 pieces

Issues cited

On the site

The Saturday Evening Post2 pieces · the film

Issues cited

On the site

Church Life JournalUniversity of Notre Dame1 piece · quoted 5 times

Issues cited

On the site

Chicago Catholic1 piece · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

Cleveland Plain Dealer2 pieces · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

In the Plain Dealer’s archive, which many libraries subscribe to. The pages use transcriptions posted by AA in Cleveland and at silkworth.net.

Issues cited

  • October 21–26, 1939 · Elrick B. Davis’s series, beginning “Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here”
  • November 4, 1939

On the site

Jesuits Central and Southern1 piece · quoted 1 time

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On the site

Addiction Professional2 pieces

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On the site

CatholicPhilly.com1 piece · quoted 2 times

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On the site

San Diego Reader1 piece · quoted 2 times

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On the site

The Spectator1 piece · quoted 2 times

Issues cited

On the site

Toronto Star1 piece · quoted 2 times

Issues cited

  • June 3, 2011 · Leslie Scrivener, “Fight over ‘God’ splits Toronto AA groups”

On the site

U.S. Catholic1 piece · quoted 2 times

Issues cited

On the site

Publishers Weekly1 piece · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

The Christian Science Monitor1 piece · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

The Globe and Mail1 piece · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

WBNG12 News, Binghamton1 piece · quoted 1 time

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On the site

Windspeaker1 piece · quoted 1 time

Issues cited

On the site

Akron Beacon Journal1 piece

Issues cited

  • August 2022 · Betty Lin-Fisher, “‘Honor the legacy’: Summa to close St. Thomas chapel with ties to AA, relocate many items”
  • July 2024 · “Demolition underway of former St. Thomas Hospital in Akron”

On the site

American Heritage1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Issues cited

On the site

Anchorage Daily News1 piece

Issues cited

On the site

Defense Media Network1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Issues cited

On the site

Fine Books Magazine1 piece

Issues cited

On the site

“La Luz Pottery”a newspaper article on the Tularosa Basin Historical Society’s exhibit, 20061 piece

Where to read it

The pages read it as transcribed on the AA History Lovers list (message 3636, August 2006).

On the site

Norwich University RecordNorwich University’s alumni magazine1 piece

Where to read it

Not online. The site’s copy came from the Norwich University Archives.

Issues cited

  • Spring 2001 · Gary Lord, “William G. Wilson, Class of 1918: Crusader Against Alcoholism”

On the site

Pipe Dream1 piece

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On the site

Psychiatric News1 piece

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On the site

Shaw Local1 piece

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Signal Cleveland1 piece

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Spectrum News1 piece

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On the site

The Connaught Telegraph1 piece

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On the site

The Humanist1 piece

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On the site

The Washington Post1 piece

Issues cited

  • May 3, 2004 · David Von Drehle, “One Page at a Time,” on Susan Cheever’s My Name Is Bill

On the site

The Witnessan Episcopal weekly1 piece

Issues cited

On the site

Yale Alumni Magazine1 piece

Issues cited

On the site

Letters and archives

Letters, minutes and records, most of them known through copies that archives and AA groups have shared.

Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1945–1946Bulletin of Yale University, January 19471 piece · quoted 2 times

Yale’s yearly record of graduates who died, with the entry for Rowland H., class of 1903.

Where to read it

On the site

Rowland Hazard III PapersRhode Island Historical Society, Providence (MSS 483 sg 8); finding aid by Steve Dalpe and Rick Stattler, 19991 piece

Rowland H.’s investment correspondence from his New York years and his bank records from 1918 to 1939.

Where to read it

The site uses the finding aid.

On the site

Ruth Hock, letter to Bill W., November 10, 1955transcribed as “Ruth Hock’s Recollections”2 pieces · quoted 8 times

On the site

Letters of Esther L. Richards and W. D. Silkworth, July 1938AA General Service Office Archives1 piece · 1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Where to read it

Held at AA’s archives in New York. The site quotes them as AA historians have.

On the site

The Cornwall Press, invoice No. 85D to Works Publishing, April 10, 1939the printer’s bill for the Big Book’s first printing1 piece · the film

The printer’s bill for the first printing of the Big Book: 4,650 copies, with binding charged for 1,000 of them.

Where to read it

The original is at AA’s General Service Office. The pages read it as transcribed from that copy and posted to the AA History Lovers list (message 2814, November 2005).

On the site

Jim B., “The Evolution of Alcoholics Anonymous,” by 1947an early New York member’s history of AA’s first years1 piece · quoted 3 times

A history of AA’s first years by Jim B., a New York member in 1939, written by 1947 and never published by AA. It tells of the New York groups paying to bring the Big Book’s first loner East.

Where to read it

The site reads it as posted to the AA History Lovers list (message 1705, March 2004). Its copyist notes that some of Jim’s recollections don’t agree with better accounts.

On the site

Bill W., letter to Ed W., November 1950posted by the Harbor Area Central Office, 20171 piece · quoted 2 times

Where to read it

On the site

The 2021 revision of the Preamble: the Grapevine board’s memo and a motion to rescind2021–20221 piece · quoted 2 times

What’s cited

On the site

Bill W., letter on the Lord’s Prayer at AA meetings, April 14, 1959a copy circulated by AA groups1 piece · quoted 1 time

On the site

Bill W., “Greetings On Our 10th Christmas,” 1944a Christmas greeting to all members1 day of A Daily Reprieve · quoted 1 time

Bill W.’s greeting to the members for AA’s tenth Christmas, from the trustees, from Bobbie B. at the office, and from Lois and Bill.

Where to read it

The site reads it as posted to the AA History Lovers list (messages 2994, December 2005, and 5441, December 2008).

On the site

Biography of Ricardo (Dick) P.Bob M. · Cleveland District Office archives, 20211 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

North Florida Area assembly minutes, June 1974the delegate’s report on the 24th General Service Conference1 piece · quoted 1 time

Where to read it

On the site

Alcoholics Together RecordsONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives (Coll2008-051)1 piece

Where to read it

On the site

Detroit’s AA history, on Mr. Hope and on WWJ1 piece

Detroit AA’s own account of its early radio and television programs, including Mr. Hope in 1956.

Where to read it

The pages read it as posted to the AA History Lovers list in 2008 (message 4911), with Time’s column of March 5, 1945.

On the site

Edward V. “Eddie” Rickenbacker South Pacific NegativesNational Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution1 day of A Daily Reprieve

Where to read it

The site uses only the finding aid’s biographical note.

On the site

Marty M., keynote address to the National Tuberculosis Association, Cincinnati, May 22, 1961transcript, National Council on Alcoholism1 piece

Where to read it

The site quotes it as Brown and Brown quote it.

On the site

Minutes of the Alcoholic Foundation, February 14, 1939the trustees’ minutes1 day of A Daily Reprieve

The minutes of the trustees’ meeting that accepted the resignation of the Foundation’s first chairman.

Where to read it

Held at AA’s General Service Office. The site reads them as quoted by John Barton on the AA History Lovers list (message 5429, December 2008).

On the site

The History of Alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous in South Orange, New JerseyJohn Barton · 20081 piece

A history of AA in South Orange and New Jersey, whose third section draws on the “Early History of Intergroup” found in the New Jersey archives.

Where to read it

The pages read it as posted to the AA History Lovers list in 2008 (message 5322).

On the site

The Oxford Group. A National Assembly: the program, Stockbridge, 1936May 29–June 8, 1936; in the Frederic Lawrence and Kenaston Twitchell Oxford Group Manuscript Collection1 piece

Where to read it

The site uses only the finding aid’s description, for the assembly’s dates.

On the site

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