> "In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk,
> feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry,
> depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning
> we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was
> insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. We now
> see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead or casually,
> there was little serious or effective thought during the period of
> premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 37~
>