Most of the Muckers have little clean/sober time. What do they know, anyhow?

Again, we focus on the fact that, for us, time is not the issue. As a rule, we believe that, once a person has recovered, they are ready to guide someone else through the Book. It is the Book which contains the teaching, not the guide. We note that nowhere in the Book does it indicate a recovered alcoholic must wait a year before working with another alcoholic. In fact, in Bill's Story (pg. 9, A.A.) Ebby is described as 12 stepping Bill after only two months of sobriety. Moreover, the Book states that "nothing will so much insure immunity form drinking (using) as intensive work with other alcoholics (addicts). It works when other activities fail (pg. 89, A.A.). It is our belief that the prevention of such 12th step work during the first year of sobriety serves only to make that first year more difficult for the recovered addict/alcoholic.

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