What
is alcoholism?
Answer
Alcoholism
is a malady; that something is dead wrong with us physically;
that our reaction to alcohol has changed; that something
has been very wrong with us emotionally; that our alcoholic
habit has become an obsession, a obsession which can
no longer reckon even with death itself. Once firmly
set, one is not able to turn it aside. In other words,
a sort of allergy of the body which guarantees that
we shall die if we drink, an obsession of the mind which
guarantees that we shall go on drinking. Such has been
the alcoholic dilemma time out of mind, and it is altogether
probable that even those alcoholics who did not wish
to go on drinking, not more than five out of one hundred
have ever been able to stop before A.A. (Yale Summer
School of Alcohol Studies, June 1945).
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