Is alcoholism a disease?
Yes, alcoholism is a disease.
The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

Like many other diseases, alcoholism is chronic, meaning that it lasts a person’s lifetime; it usually [...]

A word about sex relations.
Alcohol is so sexually stimulating to some people that they have over-indulged. Couples are occasionally dismayed to find that when drinking is stopped the drinker tends to be impotent. Unless the reason is understood, there may be an emotional upset.
Some of us had this experience, only to enjoy, in a few [...]

Spiritual awakening
"A spiritual awakening soon came to mean trying each day to be a little more thoughtful, more considerate, a little more courteous to those with whom I came in contact."
c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 356
"In his helplessness and desperation, Bill cried out, ’I’ll do anything, anything at all!’ He had reached a point of [...]

Researchers from Stanford University found that a 12-step oriented treatment program that included attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings boosted two-year sobriety rates by 30 percent compared to cognitive-behavioral (CB) programs, the BBC reported Jan. 29.
Twelve-step oriented programs also cost 30 percent less than CB-based treatment for addiction, the researchers said.
Lead study author Keith Humphreys said [...]

What About This Spiritual Awakening Thing?
The phrase “spiritual awakening,” found in the Twelfth Step and throughout A.A. literature, remains daunting to many beginners. For some, it conjures up a dramatic “conversion” experience - not an appealing idea to an alcoholic just coming off a drunk. To others, beaten down by years of steady drinking, it [...]

‘God As We Understood Him’
The basic principles of Alcoholics Anonymous were worked out in the late 1930s and early ’40s, during what co-founder Bill W. often referred to as the Fellowship’s period of “trial and error.”
The founding members had been using six steps borrowed from the Oxford Groups, where many of them started out. Bill [...]

Daily Reprieve:
The word “reprieve” means “a temporary relief.”

We have a daily reprieve from the symptoms of our alcoholism contingent upon the maintenance of our spiritual fitness.

This phrase appears in chapter 6 of the Big Book, “We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance [...]

A.A.’s 12-Steps - A Program of Action
A.A.’s Twelve Steps, which constitute its program of recovery, are in no way a statement of belief; they simply describe what the founding members did to get sober and stay sober.
They contain no new ideas: surrender, self-inventory, confession to someone outside ourselves, and some form of prayer and [...]

Blackout:
A period of alcohol-induced memory loss extending from a few hours to a few days during heavy drinking.
While in a blackout, a person may appear to behave somewhat "normally" but have no recollection of it later.

See also;

Abstinence-based Recovery
Part of the Recovery Dictionary

         
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Blackout:
A period of alcohol-induced memory loss extending from a few hours to a few days during heavy drinking.
While in a blackout, a person may appear to behave somewhat "normally" but have no recollection of it later.

See also;

Abstinence-based Recovery
Part of the Recovery Dictionary

         
Just for Today [...]