Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bone cancer. At one point, she collapsed under the strain, and Senator Edward Kennedy was left to cope. After an exhausting trip to the U.S.S.R. this spring with Ted, Joan on her doctor's advice entered the exclusive Silver Hill Foundation in Connecticut, a private sanatorium that treats alcoholism and related disorders. Joan's friends say her problems are compounded by the fact that "a minimal amount of alcohol produces the maximum effect." It was not her first visit to Silver Hill. In and out of psychiatrists' offices for years, Joan had to struggle even...
Among the veterans, alcohol, drug use and unemployment were found to be twice as high as among nonveterans, and only 50% of the veterans (v. 74% of the others) say that "things are going well" in their personal lives...
...also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull no loads in neutral." Drivers who have heeded Keys' message range from those who have given up alcohol, drugs or reading pornographic paperbacks to those who seem to find Jesus a substitute for NoDoz-and sometimes a tranquilizer. "I know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of my Life," wrote one California trucker, "and I can truthfully say that he takes the hazards and nervous tension out of driving...
When a physician advises the use of alcohol for its tranquilizing, sedative or antidepressive action for a patient undergoing unusual emotional distress, he or she is prescribing a dangerous drug, addictive in 5% to 10% of users. None of the normal controls on the use of a dangerous drug (e.g., medical supervision, control of dosage, need for periodic review and represcription, warnings of hazards and side effects) are present. The patient does not look upon alcohol as a drug and may be unaware of increasing dependence...
...There are those of us in Alcoholics Anonymous who rejoice in our sobriety. At a recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...