Author note: Although alcohol is not my reason for finding the 12 Steps, all 12 Step programs are structured after AA and heavily influenced by the ‘Alcoholic’s Anonymous Big Book’.
(Based on reading The Dr.s Opinion pg. xxvii) “We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol (or insert your own substance/behavior) on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.”
I have an ALLERGY which produces the phenomenon of craving…
And creates a mental twist of the mind resulting in ADDICTION.
I come out of denial and have AWARENESS of my condition and state.
I choose ACCEPTANCE of this as my reality, and…
I take ACTION through working the steps an using the tools of recovery to receive/achieve…
ABSTINENCE and the freedom from this bondage.
Writings of Recovery 
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