Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband announced a month ago that he would not seek another term as Governor of Massachusetts. Last week Michael Dukakis revealed that his wife was suffering from more than postdefeat blues. He explained that Kitty had checked into a private clinic in Newport, R.I., for treatment of an alcohol problem that had surfaced suddenly after the election. Said the Governor: "A combination of physical exhaustion, the stress of the campaign effort and postelection letdown all combined to create a situation in which, on a limited number of occasions while at home, she has used alcohol in excessive quantities...
...addictive tendencies cluster in some people is still a mystery. Researchers know that some sufferers have an inherited physical susceptibility $ to alcoholism and perhaps to abuse of other substances as well. There may also be a psychological vulnerability. Experts dismiss the popular idea that there is a set of personality traits, say, low self-esteem and a streak of perfectionism, that puts people on the path to dependency. Explains Dr. Sheila Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class...
...signing a $175,000 book contract and registering with a speakers' bureau. She also traveled, taking a trip to an Arizona spa. And apparently she drank. Enough to alarm her family and, most important, herself. Doctors do not believe she has had the time to become heavily dependent on alcohol, but they say her earlier experience with amphetamines evidently set off warning bells. "She recognized that her recovery was a day-to-day thing, and she is an addictive person," says Paul Costello, her press secretary during the campaign. She has struggled mightily but unsuccessfully to stop smoking cigarettes...
Cross-dependent people as a rule are more difficult to treat than single- substance abusers. Often they admit to having trouble with one chemical -- cocaine, for example -- but hide the fact that they are misusing sleeping pills or alcohol. Says Dr. Roger Meyer of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Farmington: "It's hard to get them focused and to realize that they need to be talking about total abstinence from all mood- altering drugs." Kitty Dukakis has understood the message but must translate it into practice. Said her husband: "As she has now discovered, whether...
Most of the 14,448 sober Garden fans (no alcohol was served) will remember the 15 goals scored, the most ever in a title game. But some will not forget other moments that made this game unforgettable...