We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic will abundantly confirm this.
Reprinted from the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, page #22,23 THERE IS A SOLUTION with permission of AA World Services, Inc.
