Hygeia: The Health Magazine from July 1948 - Alcoholics Anonymous

This issue of Hygeia Health Magazine from July 1948 includes the article “Alcoholics Anonymous”.

This article is Second of seven articles on alcohol in personal and public health.

Here is an excerpt of the article:

“WE In Alcoholics Anonymous-more than 60,000 men and women-have found a way of life that for us has solved the problem of alcoholism.

To some of us the word "alcoholic" presented a problem almost as great as our abnormal drinking. Our picture of the alcoholic: The stumbling creature of the skid roads of our bigger cities; the town drunkard, half clown, half bogy man, of our smaller communities; or the hapless, hopeless, desperate "repeater" of the state and private hospitals, the "cures," the workhouses.

The majority of us weren't that kind of drinker. We maintained a home. We supported our families. We had a position in the community. True, we drank more than most people but that didn't make us fit our concept of the alcoholic.

For such of us Alcoholics Anonymous said: We believe that an alcoholic is simply an uncontrolled drinker. We believe the alcoholic is one whose life has become unmanageable because of his drinking. We believe that, if a man's drinking is interfering seriously with a normal way of life in his domestic, social or business affairs, that man might well examine himself honestly, objectively, to determine if he has passed the thin line that separates the uncontrolled drinker from the controlled drinker.”

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This magazine is in good condition. Some wear to the spine.

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