I Saw Religion Remake A Drunkard by D.J. Defoe September 1939 “Your Faith” Magazine, page 84 Through Liquor, this physician had lost his practice, his reputation...
Charles Towns, owner of Towns’ Hospital where Bill Wilson had sobered up, tried to get publicity for A.A. and finally succeeded. He had known Morris...
These articles are reprinted from the Cleveland Plain Dealer The Elrick B. Davis Articles From The Cleveland Plain Dealer October – November 1939 These articles...
Alcoholics Anonymous Science Column Medicine usually claims to cure only about 2 per cent of the cases of acute alcoholism it treats. Last week a...
Alcoholics Anonymous Medicine Column Last week one of the best-known teetotalers in the U.S., John D. Rockefeller, had 60 people to dinner. No cocktails were...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS By THEODORE ENGLISH New Year’s resolutions, sanitariums and so-called cures are no help to many who are afflicted with the drink habit. One...
The Jack Alexander Article The Saturday Evening Post March 1, 1941 Alcoholics Anonymous THREE MEN sat around the bed of an alcoholic patient in the...
Laymen and Alcoholics by Genevieve Parkhurst As he came out from under the opiate the man in the hospital bed opened his eyes to black...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS by Gordon Best At 7 p.m. on January 19 last, eight men sat down to dinner in Little Denmark a small restaurant on...
Alcoholics Anonymous by Gurdon Simmons The smartly groomed woman, show -ing no self-consciousness before her audience of several hundred, launched into a graphic recital of...
Alcoholics Cured by Faith Condensed from The American Journal of Psychiatry by Harry M. Tiebout, M.D. Alcoholics Anonymous is the name applied to a group...
Yale to Rehabilitate Alcoholics Condensed from The American Weekly Howard W. Haggard Director, Laboratory of Applied Physiology, Yale University RECURRENT trips to jail for the...
Help for Drunkards Medicine Column Two members of Alcoholics Anonymous recently shed their anonymity. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fast-growing national organization of ex-drinkers pledged to...
“Maybe I Can Do It Too” Edward McGoldrick cured himself of alcoholism –and is now curing others for New York. At last, a city deals...
ALCOHOLISM – Is there a cure? by Stewart Robertson “NO,” SAYS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, “THERE IS NOT” – BUT THIS VOLUNTARY, NONPROFIT, NO-DUES GROUP OF EX-ALCOHOLICS...
It’s Fun to Be Sober For many seamen, the sea is an escape. It was for Joe. The ruddy- faced, squarely built, 27-year-old Irishman would...
Alcoholics on the Air Radio Column One of Detroit’s citizens stepped up to the microphone one night last week and told how he had “hit...
Alcoholics Anonymous Doing Great Job In Its New Times Sq. Clubhouse Alcoholics Anonymous has come to Broadway. The organization that has helped life 12,000 drunks...
I WAS A DRUNK by An Alcoholic as told to J.J. Dingman A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF RECLAMATION BY CO-OPERATION, THE STORY OF A PRACTICAL FELLOWSHIP, ALCOHOLICS...
Blueplate Gospel by Leslie H. Farber, M.D. Books in Review: September Remember, by Eliot Taintor. New York: Prentice Hall, Inc. 322 pages, $2.75. Of all...
Case History Of An Alcoholic LOOK’s unposed pictures record the end of an epic binge, and its treatment by AA Produced by Paul Marcus, Editor...
MAYBE YOU KNOW US ONLY AS ALCOHOLICS. YOU SCORN US… YOU SHUN US…. BUT PERHAPS AFTER YOU HAVE READ MY STORY, YOU WILL PITY US...
My Return from the Half-World of Alcoholism A letter to Alcoholics Anonymous saved the author’s life. Condensed from The Grapevine by Anonymous A year ago...
The Sick Person We Call An Alcoholic Mrs. Mann, once a victim of liquor, tells what we can do to help those who would quit...
ALCOHOLISM by Donald G. Cooley How can you tell if you are an alcoholic or in danger of becoming one? What can you do about...
Can Alcoholics Recover? by Gretta Palmer Alcoholism has been called our No.4 public health problem by a medical director of the U.S. Public Health Service-and...
I’m An Alcoholic Who Quit Drinking A Rotarian wins the battle of liquor aided by an ally named ‘A.A.’ and a weapon called psychology. by...
Heightened Hope for Alcoholics America’s Chronic Drunkards, Once Shunned as Social Outcasts, Are Being Redeemed by New, Humane Treatment That Restores Them to Health and...
I’M AN ALCOHOLIC’S WIFE by Janet Today’s Alcoholic is babied as a noble, frustrated soul, says this wife. But what about the real victim –...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS by Mrs. Marty Mann, New York, N.Y. Executive Director, National Committee for Education of Alcoholism, Sponsored by the Yale Plan for Alcohol Studies...
Life Membership Medicine Column The organization of ex-drinkers known as Alcoholics Anonymous last week was rounding out its twelfth year. Taking stock, it found that...
This is the story of a brilliant man who very nearly sacrificed his whole life to liquor. It makes shocking reading, but every word of...
Problem Drinkers Indication as to the “success secret” of Alcoholics Anonymous in helping its 50,000 members, is given in a quote from one of its...
Can We Conquer ALCOHOLISM Marty Mann, Executive Director, National Committee For Education on Alcoholism We are not dealing here with a minor problem. We are...
We Can Lick Alcoholism CLINIC PLAN OFFERS HOPE FOR WORLD’S LEAST UNDERSTOOD SICK PEOPLE by Carlton Brown TO MANY AMERICANS, the alcoholic is a comic...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Second of seven articles on alcohol In personal and public health We in Alcoholics Anonymous-more than 60,000 men and women-have found a way...
Hope For The Alcoholic New attitudes, community programs, government action and scientific research promise a more effective attack on alcoholism, a major public health problem....
I WENT BACK TO A DRUNK by Anonymous One black night she even thought of murder. Read the dramatic story of this Canadian woman’s victory...
New Help For Alcoholics by Dorothy Hunter Relatives of habitual drinkers have found a novel way of dealing with their problem—- I am not an...
How San Francisco Sobers ‘Em Up The Golden Gate city, ashamed of having the highest percentage of arrests for drunkenness, and alarmed by the number...
SKID ROW – U.S.A. by WILLIAM J. SLOCUM Perhaps you’ll recognize one of your old friends or schoolmates on this tour through the jungles of...
SKID ROW – U.S.A. by WILLIAM J. SLOCUM Within our cities there is a world of living dead where Lonely, despairing Americans seek escape from...
MEDICAL CARE FOR ALCOHOLICS BROOKLYN HOSPITAL MAINTAINS SPECIAL DE-ALCOHOLIZATION WARD FOR PATIENTS IN 1935, a hard-drinking young Wall Streeter traveling through Akron, O., encountered a...
My lost seven years by NORMAN BROKENSHIRE This is the story of a man who was able to struggle back from a tragic wasteland after...
The Drunkard’s Best Friend Nine years ago the Post reported on the then-obscure group known as Alcoholics Anonymous. Since that time these self-rehabilitated men-and women-have...
Alcoholics Anonymous Drunkenness is on the decline in this country. But a tragic few still abuse the harmless pleasures of moderate drinking. For the first...
Here’s an ally against the chemistry of alcoholism Double-Barreled Hope for Alcoholics by Paul de Kruif Jail is still our main medicine for chronic alcoholics,...
This is the February 1951 Fortune Magazine article about AA. Like the Saturday Evening Post article, Fortune Magazine gave permission to AA to reprint it...
A.A. A uniquely American phenomenon. Americans react to most social problems by first shouting “There oughta be a law,” and then calming down to measure...
Dr. Bob His Only Monument Is a Plaque, but the Thousands He Helped Rescue From Alcoholism Will Never Forget Him. by Booton Herndon The kindly...
