Recovery Books

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4. The AA member - Medications & other Drugs, Pamphlet P-11

On prescription medications -- I don't think the Big Book EXPLICITELY says anything about medications, but it does say see doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists when needed, so its probably a distinction without a difference.

Big Book - Chapter 9 p. 133-134

But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensable in treating a newcomer and in following his case afterward.

However, the A.A. Conference approved book, Living Sober, is quite clear about prescription medications.

So is the A.A. Pamphlet --
P-11 The AA member - Medications & other Drugs - Report from a group of doctors in Alcoholics Anonymous. AA members share their experience with medications and other drugs.
http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/aa-literature/p-11-the-aa-membermedications-and-other-drugs

Boiled down to its essence, it's ultimately you and your doctor who decide. "No A.A. Member Plays Doctor".