"If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were [see Page 21:1&2], we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on the the bitter end, blotting out the counsciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help." [Steps 3-11]