In a matter of fact way he told how two men had appeared in court, persuading the judge to suspend his commitment. Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him. Most of us have entered the final stage with its commitment to health resorts, sanitariums, hospitals, and jails.

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)