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Tradition 7: The Price of a Drink

From the July 2008 issue of AA Grapevine

Whenever I go out to dinner in a restaurant with my husband or friends, I find myself drawn to the drinks section of the menu. I also find myself paying a lot of attention to the advertisements in the window of my local liquor store. Read more >

When you can, how much do you put in the basket for the 7th Tradition?

Story of the Day: Tranquilizers. . .!?

From the Digital Archive

PERHAPS THEY ARE for the civilians but for us, they may spell trouble. They did for me, anyway. Going under various names--thorazine, mebaral, sedamyl, butiserpine, nembu-serpin, equanil, dimethylane, butibel, miltown, sparine, reserpine, to name a few--these medical discoveries are also known as mood pills, don't-give-a-damn pills (Time, Feb 24) and are supposed to help those with an anxiety, nervousness, tensions, etc. Read more >

Step 7: Twelve Steps for the Older Member

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Time after time during my seven years of AA sobriety I have recognized a character defect and have asked God to remove it and He hasn't done it. I have asked why, and for an answer have been driven to an ever more careful consideration of Step Seven. Here I encounter the crucial word "humbly." Read more >

Tradition 7: The Traditions Make Us What We Are

Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

For a magazine -- any magazine -- to be well into its forty-fifth [now, sixty-fourth] year of continuous publication is no small feat. As the saying goes, it's a jungle out there, and many a good magazine can find itself shipwrecked on some pretty treacherous shoals. Whether they survive or not, most magazines are essentially the same. They are a blend of visual and written images. Read more >

Written, edited, illustrated, and read by AA members and others interested in the AA program of recovery from alcoholism, the Grapevine is a lifeline linking one alcoholic to another.

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People working with alcoholics in correctional programs have found this annual special "prison" issue useful because it provides them and their clients with valuable information on how AA works and what meetings are like.

Never been inside?

It's not necessary to have a story that includes incarceration to effectively carry the AA message into a correctional facility. As some members have said, "The inmates already know how to be inmates. What they need to know is how to get and stay sober."