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Alcohol Abuse

This paper attempts to evaluate some current materials about the problem of alcohol abuse and to estimate how effective they are in educating and enlightening the public about this problem. This small selection represents merely a random sampling of the vast amount of information on this subject, which ranges from the committed to the skeptical, and from the intensely scientific to the frothy. An effort has been made to choose the more serious attempts to discuss this problem.

At this time any discussion of alcoholism needs to begin with a discussion of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose program, which has spread around the world since its founding in 1935, is unarguably the most effective approach yet found for dealing with the age-old scourge of alcoholism, about which even the ancient Greeks made jokes. However, to say that it is the most effective is not to say that it is very effective; the recovery rate among alcoholics in general who are exposed to A.A. is still fairly low. Yet it is effective compared to almost all other approaches, for which the recovery rate is still lower.

The book which became the text for the movement, and from which the movement derived its name, is Alcoholics Anonymous, which was written primarily by William G. Wilson, usually referred to as Bill W., who, with Dr. Bob Smith, founded A.A. in 1935. The book, completed and published in 1939, distilled the wisdom of many sources and combined it with the knowledge gained from the practical experiences of the first four years of A.A.Æs existence into what is acknowledged to be one of the most important manuals of spiritual discipline created in modern times. It has become a text not only for A.A., but for all the many other Anonymous or ôTwelve-Stepö programs that apply A.A.Æs basic discoveries and techniques to similar problems, such as overeating and anorexia, drug addiction, compulsive gambling, sex and love addictions, and what is now a steadily ...

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Alcohol Abuse. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 12:18, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1709305.html