Wet-brained or Dead

There's a part of the AA Big Book that says without God's help we would end up wet-brained or dead. I see a lot of evidence of this in AA meetings. Sometimes 20-30% of the people in the meeting are wet-brained. They talk with slurred speech and sometimes struggle to get out coherent sentences. I must say despite this, these people sometimes utter profound truths during their sharing, many of I have written in the front of my first Big Book, given to me by my sponsor. Also regularly in attendance at AA meetings are people that spent time in prison, along with people with repeated drunk driving convictions, people with 3+ divorces, people who haven't seen their children or grandchildren in years. It's a painful reminder of how lucky I am, to have been saved from alcoholism by the grace of God before I did something even worse than the foolish, selfish, and reprehensible things that I did to my family. Sometimes people become sober, but it's almost too late because the brain, the person, the family has already been hopelessly damaged.