Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions. In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite the health problems and negative social consequences it causes.
Medical definitions describe alcoholism as a disease which results in a persistent use of alcohol despite [...]

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 [...]

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.

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Abstinence-based Recovery
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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 [...]

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 Todayby Ronald Knox
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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 Todayby Ronald Knox
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Character Defects:

The defects of character which we try to identify in our Fourth Step inventory and which we try to eliminate as part of our recovery program.
In the “searching and fearless moral inventory” that we conduct in the Fourth Step, we identify a list of character defects in ourselves.
In the Fifth [...]

White Knuckle Sobriety:

A desperate effort to stay sober solely through the exercise of one’s own willpower while denying reality of their emotional inner life.
Unless one finally surrenders and begins to work the Twelve Steps to recovery, such an effort is usually doomed to failure.

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AM I CONTROLLING?
Self-Will Run Riot
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Self-Will Run Riot:
This phrase comes from chapter 5 of the Big Book,

“Selfishness- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles…. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think [...]

Big Book:

The nickname given to the book Alcoholics Anonymous. So named, because of the unusual thickness of the paper it was originally printed on. Although the book is now smaller, the nickname stuck and is, in fact, registered.

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Promises for Beginners
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The Annotated AA Handbook : A Companion to the [...]