A.A.'s Cure of Alcoholism

The Use of the Word "Cured" by Early AAs

 

By Dick B. and Ken B.

© 2013, 2014 by Anonymous. All rights reserved

 

The following resources published by A.A. World Services, Inc., contain reproductions of hundreds of newspaper articles from 1939-1944, many of which include uses of the word “cure” to describe the victories of A.A.’s pioneers over alcoholism:

 

(M-42) Archives Scrapbook 1939-1942 **

Offset reproduction of newspaper clippings about A.A. 18 ½” x 16 ½”   [$75.00]

** This item is not in the 2011-2012 catalog; it may now be out of print. [original publication date: 1985?]

http://library.brown.edu/find/Record/b2774148/Details; accessed 2/28/13]]

 

(M-66) Archives Scrapbook 1943

Offset reproduction of newspaper clippings about A.A. 18 ½” x 16 ½”   [$65.00]

[Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Incorporated, 1996;

ISBN: 0916856909; 9780916856908:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Archives_Scrapbook_1943.html?id=nIywuAAACAAJ; accessed 2/28/13.]

 

(M-69) Archives Scrapbook 1944

Offset reproduction of newspaper clippings about A.A. 18 ½” x 16 ½”   [$65.00]

[Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Incorporated, 2003;

ISBN: 1893007332; 9781893007338

http://books.google.com/books/about/Archives_Scrapbook_1944.html?id=lZuauAAACAAJ; accessed 2/28/13.]

 

[“M-66” and “M-69” are found in the “2013 Conference-Approved Literature & Other A.A. Material” literature catalog. http://aa.org/lang/en/en_pdfs/aacatalog.pdf; accessed 2/1/2014.

“M-42” was listed in one or more earlier A.A. literature catalogs and may now be out of print.]

 

The following article in the Box 459 publication discusses the “Archives Scrapbooks” above:

 

“News Clippings Open Window on A.A.’s Early Years,” Box 459: News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A., Vol. 49, No. 6 / HOLIDAY ISSUE 2003, 6-7

http://www.aa.org/en_pdfs/en_box459_holiday03.pdf; accessed 2/28/13.

 

 For more information on the use of the word “cured” by early AAs, see also:

 

Richard K., So You Think Drunks Can’t Be Cured? Press Releases by Witnesses to the Cure (Haverhill, MA: Golden Text Publishing Company, 2003)

 

 

Gloria Deo