“Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it” is an alcoholism saying that has been printed on several images. The saying was printed in the book Denial Is Not a River in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom.
“Addiction is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it” was printed in the book Walking Like a Duck: The True Story of a Nurse Walking from Addiction to Recovery (2005) by Patricia Holloran. The “addiction” (instead of “alcoholism”) version is less frequently cited.
Google Books
Denial Is Not a River in Egypt
Written and edited by Sandi Bachom
Design and illustrated by Don Ross
Center City, MN: Hazelden
1998
Pg. 13:
DENIAL
Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it.
Google Books
A Nation Under the Influence:
America’s Addiction to Alcohol
By J. Vincent Peterson, Bernard Nisenholz and Gary Robinson
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon
2003
Pg. 93:
Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don ‘t have it. —Bachom, I998
Google Books
Walking Like a Duck:
The True Story of a Nurse Walking from Addiction to Recovery
By Patricia Holloran
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
2005
Pg. 3:
“Addiction is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it.”
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing
2012
Pg. ?:
Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it.
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Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it.
12:47 PM - 9 Feb 2012
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@Naara_Jasiel
“Addiction is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it.”
— Impaired - Patricia Holloran
11:27 PM - 30 Oct 2012
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What Can I Say?
Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it ~
5:41 PM - 30 Apr 2018
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
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•“I don’t drink alcohol, I drink distilled spirits. Therefore, I’m not an alcoholic, I’m spiritual” (5/17)
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•“Since we can’t use plastic straws anymore I’ve just been choking turtles with my bare hands” (5/17)
•Entry in progress—BP24 (5/17)
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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