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...abstinence. In fact, Alcoholics Anonymous, which has an excellent record of rehabilitating heavy drinkers, defines an alcoholic as a person who can never drink again. Last week that abstinence concept was boldly challenged by three social scientists from one of the nation's best-known think tanks, the Rand Corp. In a report to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (N.I.A.A.A.), David Armor, J. Michael Polich and Harriet Stambul claimed that many former alcoholics can begin drinking in moderation without sliding all the way to their previous alcoholic depths...
...Rand scientists based their conclusion on an 18-month study of people admitted to N.I.A.A.A. treatment centers across the country. First they conducted a survey of patients at 45 centers six months after they had begun treatment. Then they went back to eight of the centers to interview in depth 1,340 patients 18 months after their initial treatment. In the latter group, which consisted of those who had been downing more than nine times the alcoholic consumption of the average drinker, more than half were unemployed and separated or divorced. After a year and a half, about...
Flexible Goals. Concerned that their findings might be construed as a green light for abstaining alcoholics to begin drinking again, the Rand group warned that there is no known way to distinguish between those who can safely begin to drink in moderation and those who might immediately go off the deep end into alcoholism again. Their recommendation: "Alcoholics who have repeatedly failed to moderate their drinking or have irrevocable physical complications due to alcoholism should not drink at all." Instead, they said, their findings suggest that in treating alcoholism, goals be set that are more "flexible" than only abstinence. Their...
...plethora of studies. In 1972, the Surgeon General issued a $1.8 million five-volume report concluding that yes, indeed, TV carnage can cause aggressive behavior in some children. Since then, the National Institute of Mental Health, all three networks and various foundations have sponsored their own studies. The Rand Corp., given a $150,000 grant to organize the available research, compiled a bibliography of 2,300 assorted papers and reports...
AGNEW'S BOOK is propaganda, but propaganda too clumsily written to provoke outrage or even concern. Ayn Rand and William F. Buckley both understand that for propaganda novels to work, the novels have to be as effective as the politics. Agnew should have taken lessons from them...