GRESHAM’S LAW & ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR CUP OF COFFEE?

STRONG? - MEDIUM? - WEAK?

GRESHAM’S LAW - THAT BAD CURRENCY DRIVES OUT GOOD - HAS BEEN OPERATIVE IN THE LIFE OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. WEAK AA IS TENDING TO DRIVE OUT STRONG AA.

This article originally appeared in the July, 1976 issue of “24 Magazine,” with the author unknown. Permission was given to reprint. We have placed this material on our “required reading” list for anyone interested in why AA is not as effective now as it was in prior years, and especially for those people experiencing a “flat recovery,” suicidal thoughts, relapse, or repeated relapse. There are three ways to work the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. (1) The strong, original way, proved powerfully and reliably effective over forty years. (2) A medium way - not so strong, not so safe, not so sure, not so good, but still effective. And (3) a weak way, which turns out to be really no way at all but literally a heresy, a false teaching, a twisting corruption of what the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous clearly stated the program to be.

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