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Preliminary Results. Six months later, from 50% to 70% of the alcoholics trained to drink socially will do so or will abstain entirely. By comparison, only 10% to 20% of a group treated by conventional therapy could do the same. For the new abstainers, the apparent cure rate is 50%, compared with 20% to 25% in a control group. The researchers admit that their results are preliminary and that more patients may relapse as time goes on. But they have high hopes that many of the former alcoholics-having learned to associate drinking with real physical pain-will stay cured...
...President Anwar Sadat approached the podium of the National Assembly in Cairo last week, barely a day remained before the ceasefire between his country and Israel was due to expire. He ended the suspense quickly. As long as there was "genuine progress" toward peace, he said Egypt would "abstain from firing." On hearing the news from Cairo, an Arab waiter in an East Jerusalem hotel burst into the bar and happily told his patrons (mostly Israelis): "We've got at least thirty more days...
...methods leaned more heavily on psychology than physiology. Recognizing that alcoholics must not merely control their consumption but curb it entirely, A.A. members listened to each other's stories and helped one another resist the temptation to drink. But they never forgot that the major effort to abstain must be made by the drinker himself. "The only requirement for A.A. membership," according to an organization tradition, "is a sincere desire to stop drinking...
...antiseptic. In The City of the Sun, by the 17th century writer Tommaso Campanella, no woman was permitted to have sexual intercourse until she was 19; a man had to wait until he was 21-or longer, if he happened to be pale-complexioned. Those stalwarts who managed to abstain until they were 27 were to be paid homage at a public gathering, where hymns were sung in their honor. In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the voyager Christian can reach the Celestial City-which 17th century artists sometimes pictured as a snugly fortified medieval town...
Endless drinking. Nat has to abstain-his stomach has been upset lately. My grandmother, almost jogging around in her long silver-white dress, helps herself. So do I. So do my mother, my three uncles (all of whom are named Sidney), my aunts (Bert and Dot and Frances), and my married cousin Andy. Drinks in hand, we admire a collage of black-and-white family pictures leaning against the wall. Someone says that one of the little babies is me. There is a snapshot of my grandparents; the thirties; they look like Bonnie and Clyde...