Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treatment. The Yale Clinic offers no magic formula. Its only tools are 1) the ingenuity of the clinic's small staff of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and case workers; 2) a massive catalogue of facts about alcohol compiled by the University's Section on Alcohol Studies...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
Misconception No. 1. Prolonged drinking, he thinks, has made him an irreparable physical wreck. The fact: alcohol weakens the body, but seldom damages it permanently. Aside from certain easily remediable ailments (such as a temporarily enlarged liver, vitamin deficiency diseases-e.g., pellagra), there are few disorders traceable to drinking. Cirrhosis of the liver, one of the few which seems to have a connection, attacks only 8% of drunkards (v. 1% in the general population...
Because there is no real cure for alcoholism (a reformed drunkard is never more than one drink from disaster), Yale's alcohol researchers have concentrated on prevention. Last week Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek, the bustling director of their studies, reported a little progress: his investigators had discovered how to spot an incipient alcoholic. A drinker who 1) gulps his drinks, 2) sneaks a few on the side, 3) worries about his liquor consumption, 4) stops talking about his drinking, 5) begins to "pull blanks" (i.e., forgets what happened during his bouts) is likely to become a hopeless drunk within...
...late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...