Big Book Contents Please select a Chapter Preface Forward To First Edition Forward To Second Edition The Doctor's Opinion Bill's Story There is a Solution More About Alcoholism We Agnostics How It Works Into Action Working with Others To Wives The Family Afterward To Employers A Vision for You The A.A. Tradition Spiritual Experience The Medical View on A.A. The Lasker Award The Religious View on A.A. How To Get In Touch With A.A. 1st Edition Stories 2nd Edition Stories

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Personal Stories Please select a Story The Doctor's Nightmare The Unbeliever The European Drinker A Feminine Victory Our Southern Friend A Business Man's Recovery A Different Slant Traveler, Editor, Scholar The Back-Slider Home Brewmeister The Seventh Month Slip My Wife and I A Ward of the Probate Court Riding the Rods The Salesman Fired Again The Fearful One Truth Freed Me! Smile with Me, At Me A Close Shave Educated Agnostic Another Prodigal Story The Car Smasher Hindsight On His Way An Alcoholic's Wife An Artist's Concept The Rolling Stone Now We Are Thousands *Lone Endeavor 2nd Edition Stories The Big Book

The Lasker Award

      In 1951 the Lasker Award was given Alcoholics Anonymous. The citation reads in part as follows:
      "The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."