Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model. Each N.A. meeting faithfully follows the A.A. procedure, down to a reading of some part of A.A. principles, perhaps the "Twelve Suggested Steps" to salvation, modified to suit N.A.'s different objective. Thus, in A.A.'s Step 1-"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol"-the last word has been replaced by "our emotions." Unlike formal group therapy, in which the meetings are supervised by a professional, N.A. meetings are little more than hash sessions. Problems are ventilated in a climate deliberately kept free of critical judgment. Every day the N.A. member promises himself that "I will...
...Even if we were to get into the game of deciding what's good for someone else, the harm done in these "perversions" is undoubtedly less dangerous or unhealthy than is tobacco or alcohol...
Drinking and Drifting. Alcohol's drain on productivity has become especially dismaying to the party hierarchy-because of growing signs of sluggishness in the Soviet economy. Thus, while past antidrinking crusades have suffered from complacency and lack of enforcement, this time officials really seem to mean business. Last week the Soviet Trade Union Council ordered a crackdown on workers who "drink, loaf or drift." The council recommended that recalcitrant members be expelled and thereby deprived of sick leave and pension benefits...
...Alcohol has long been a means of escape from boredom and pressures for Indians. On one Midwest reservation containing 4,600 adults, 44% of all the men and 21% of the women were arrested at least once for drunkenness in a span of three years. Many reservations have opened bars and liquor stores to keep Indians from killing themselves in auto accidents en route home from binges in the city. A much-repeated explanation quotes Bill Pensoneau, president of the National Indian Youth Council, as telling a new commissioner of Indian Affairs: "We drown ourselves in wine and smother ourselves...
Though he is a health faddist who takes plenty of exercise (gymnastics, hikes, pingpong) and abstains from alcohol and tobacco, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht is frequently rumored to be ailing. Last week, at his first international press conference in nine years, the 76-year-old party boss looked surprisingly pink of cheek and spry of limb to the 400 foreign newsmen who flocked to East Berlin's modernistic Council of Ministers Building...