R is for Realizing We're Powerless
This one is a hard one for a lot of us alcoholics at first. We are so often pig-headed, stubborn and in such a desperate need to control every aspect of our lives and the lives of others that admitting weakness of any kind is out of the question. In the 1976 song 'Bad Liver and Broken Heart' Tom Waits describes this powerlessness perfectly, "I don't have a drinking problem 'cept when I can't get a drink..." There are no problems as long as a steady supply of booze is readil