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...them (many still refuse to treat them), and the law looked upon them as human vermin who had to be swept off the streets and thrown into drunk tanks. Old attitudes still persist, but within the past five years there has been a remarkable change in prognosis. No miracle cure, no equivalent of the Salk vaccine is in sight for the alcoholic, and none is ever likely to be found; but for every one of the many alcoholisms there is at least one treatment or combination of treatments that offers a good chance of cure...
...attend meetings as often as they feel the need. "My name is John," a member will intone at each meeting, "and I am an alcoholic." Says an Atlanta executive who has been a member for 25 years: "I am deeply convinced that A.A. is the only way. Doctors cannot cure alcoholism because it is not simply a sickness of the body. Psychiatrists cannot do it because it is not simply a sickness of the mind, and ministers cannot do it because it is not a sickness of the spirit alone. You must treat all three areas, and that is what...
...medicine has found no cure for the hangover, although aspirin can alleviate the headache. Despite a plethora of folk cures (none of them really effective), the best policy is to avoid drinking in excess the night before. Actually, no one knows exactly what causes the hangover's unpleasant symptoms of headache, nausea, depression and fatigue, which many drinkers experience at one time or another...
Finally the A.A. "cure" took when Bob was at the ripe age of 15. Sobriety has not been easy. A well-meaning social worker pressured Bob to take tranquilizers to relieve his tension. He refused. "If I did that," he asks, "then why not drink? I was tired of being told that 1) I'm alcoholic, and 2) I need to take tranquilizers to survive. If I had taken drugs, I would have been in the nut house again in a matter of months...
...that is technically equipped to sustain life indefinitely is indeed agonizing. That, however, is not so agonizing as seeing parents devastated by a diagnosis that their baby is severely damaged yet will survive. The medical profession as well as the public must pause to consider whether the efforts to cure are not interfering with our ability to care...