Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council resolution dealing with the fraternity responsibility measure declared, "Fraternities will accept the responsibility for maintaining orderly conduct in regard to the consumption of alcohol in houses--disorderly conduct to be defined by the Interfraternity Council and the individual fraternities...
...developed through lack of spiritual values in life and education . . . The fatalism with which people talk about the future of the Republic, the amount of time and money devoted to 'hot rod' pleasures, the level of current standards of sex relations, and the immoderate use of alcohol as an escape or as a crutch-these are the symptoms of the nation's deficit in nonmaterial things...
...There is no harm in this initial stage," Fleming said. "But in some cases, it is only a way station. Plainly and simply, the main cause of an alcohol addiction is alcohol. The more one drinks, the more necessary it becomes...
...frequently new troubles come, also social, psychological and physical. These troubles are the results of the alcohol that was taken originally to cure other problems. These troubles are family difficulties, job problems, digestional disorders and the like. "One of the great paradoxes about drinking is that the only thing that relieves the sufferings of the alcoholic is the very thing that is causing him to suffer...
Fleming said that people who are weak in either their personality or their physical constitution are least able to handle liquor. An interesting exception to this rule was revealed in recent case studies, which showed a surprising percentage of ex-athletes among the patients at alcoholic clinics. These men, because of their exceptional physical condition during their college years, were at first able to take large quantities of alcohol without apparent harm. But their systems were affected by this overdosage, and when their condition weakened, their progress to chronic addiction was hastened...