Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol studies division of the Yale University laboratories of applied science--not officially connected with Alcoholics Anonymous--distributed to undergraduates some 5000 questionnaires containing 100 questions...
...story told about the accidental discovery of the effect that a drug named antabus has had in arousing a loathing for alcohol in almost everybody who has taken it. According to Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, who discovered the drug's anti-alcoholic potentialities, TIME was the first U.S. publication to print the story...
...phraseology of most of the letters is identical, saying: "My husband [father, son, brother, nephew, friend, etc.] is a good man but a habitual alcoholic. Please send the drug mentioned in TIME. I enclose a check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...
Author Joseph Hirsh points out that in the past 100 years the amount of alcohol (not alcoholic beverages) consumed has gone up only .02%; more beer and less whiskey is being drunk today. But the point is that there are a lot more people around who have reached the drinking age. The modern world, Hirsh says, encourages drinking. It is a "world of acute tensions and violence, and it is from this kind of world that sick people come...
...Much Alcohol. No pious bluenose, Hirsh is a hardbitten, 34-year-old health administrator who has spent nearly twelve years studying drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...