Years back i was studying to get my CAC certificate and read "Under the Influence". For me, it established an unshakable belief for using the argument that the most important fact I need to remember is that alcoholism is a disease of the body.
To this day,when I am at a meeting, I always stress the point that no matter how sane I feel, how good my life is going, how emotionally stable I think I am; I suffer from a physical condition that will never go away. One drink starts the cycle and it will escalate. That in turn will bring back the insanity, social ruin and increased emotional instability.
I didn't become an alcoholic because I was a bad person but because the genes I inherited from mom and dad gave me my blue eyes, brown hair and malfunctional liver. We just don't metabolize booze the way a person with a non-alcoholic liver does.

I just received a copy of "Beyond the Influence" and am reading it now.... they have gone so much further in the last 25 years with studies.

'Close family member received that book at hospital program he entered, 30+ years ago. It was a main feature of their approach to helping patients, 'self-diagnosis.' I read it then, and has been a major part of my understanding of alcoholism ever since, which I spread around here whenever I can.'

It's an IMPORTANT book.