I’m a Nurse in an Alcoholic Ward by Anonymous The author–a onetime alcoholic–has nursed 5000 drunks through the fading hours of their most spectacular sprees....
The Shame Of Skid Row by JEROME ELLISON Danny, citizen of Detroit, U.S.A., has cost his city $18,500 since 1928, as a living discard. There...
The 24-Hour Club for Alcoholics Today, club life for ex-drunks-to supply their needs for companionship and fun-is A.A.’s second miracle by FOWLER HILL Two years...
The Facts About Alcoholism exclusive interview with Dr. Selden D. Bacon, Foremost Authority on Alcoholism How extensive? What cures? What teachings to youth? How shall...
CONVICTS Take the Cure by George Dolan It isn’t easy for a guy to go on a bender while he’s in prison. Inmates figure all...
‘WE COULDN’T WORK IF WE WERE KNOWN’ In 1953, More and More ‘People With Problems’ Banded Together Under The Title: The Anonymous He stood on...
A Letter To A Woman Alcoholic by Margaret Lee Runbeck Wherever you are, at whatever stage in the long descent, this is for you. It...
Suggested As Model: Alcoholics Anonymous ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS could serve as a pattern to make group therapy in prisons more effective, Dr. Donald Cressy, University of...
These Drug Addicts Cure One Another by Jerome Ellison A new approach to a tragic social problem – drug addiction – has been found by...
Alcoholics Anonymous No Booze But Plenty Of Babes Some AA’s go to meetings to hear how to stay dry. The others-well, many have discovered their...
HIT BOTTOM THEN BOUNCE by Harold Hadley The bookstalls currently offer two books, each by a celebrity who made a the difficult, trying escape from...
ALCOHOLICS NOT-SO-ANONYMOUS Facts and figures you never heard about drunk-as-a-skunk Hollywood lushes… There are various things a guy can do after he’s knocked off a...
Why Not Delinquents Anonymous? by Ruth Latimer Headlines reveal today’s tragic destruction of tomorrow’s citizens. Society must rescue these young people now from perils described...
Help For The Alcoholic’s Family by Jerome Ellison The exclusive story, with case histories, of a new group that is bringing hope to alcohol’s most...
Saved From Skid Row Medicine Column The reformed drunkards numbered only 100 or so after four years of often-discouraging efforts when, in 1939, they decided...
“The Big Book”: Bible For Alcoholics by JOHN HAVERSTOCK There was a time when the organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous, which has become one of...
ARE YOU DRIVING YOUR ALCOHOLIC TO DRINK? by SHIRLEY KESSLER Unless you know what you’re doing, your efforts to cure can kill You live with...
THE UPHILL FIGHT AGAINST ALCOHOLISM by Quentin Reynolds What is to be done for the thousands of Americans under sentence of death from this scourge?...
A.A.’s Auxiliary Medicine Column For 25 years Ann Smith’s husband Ed gradually increased his liquor intake until he was drinking up to two fifths a...
IF YOU JOINED ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Pink elephants are trumpeting in your ear and your body is screaming for a shot. Here’s what it takes to...
When You Call AA Almost every city has a listing in its telephone directory for Alcoholics Anonymous, a voluntary, non-profit association in which alcoholics try...
Companies used to fire the employee whose drinking got out of hand. Now many have found ways to save the worker his livelihood and themselves...
Passionately Anonymous The 15,000 men and women who thronged California’s Long Beach Memorial Stadium last week differed from most conventioneers in one major respect, there...
Alcoholism …the problem brought up to date One of the most difficult problems that any family may be called upon to face is alcoholism. The...
New Alateen Groups Help Children Face Up to Life With Alcoholic Parents Hope In A Bitter Teen-Age Tragedy by Herbert Brean, LIFE Staff Writer It...
ALCOHOLISM An Agonized Plea For Love Five million Americans-many of them once sober-responsible citizens-are today confirmed alcoholics. Why have they sacrificed happiness for the tragic...
Probably more than 1,000,000 American women are Victims of alcoholism. Here are the shocking facts. THE HOUSEWIFE’S SECRET SICKNESS by DON MURRAY In every American...
Making Marriage Work The Alcoholic Parent by Dorothy Cameron Disney Making marriage work is never easy when alcoholism is involved. And when there are children...
What The Alcoholic Owes To Marty Mann Out of her suffering has been born a network of hope and help for thousands. by Floyd Miller...
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure? by Arthur H. Cain A useful idea has turned into a religious movement—and a hindrance to research, psychiatry, and to...
The Law Of Unselfishness (Condensed from Christian Herald) by Fulton Oursler I have a friend who is a famous New York neurologist, and many dipsomaniacs...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS – DANGERS OF SUCCESS by Jerome Ellison Back in 1940, the late John D. Rockefeller, Jr., made headlines (John D. Dines Tosspots) by...
Alcoholics Can Be Cured—Despite A.A. by Dr. Arthur H. Cain It is time we made a thorough investigation of Alcoholics Anonymous in the interest of...
THE THIRTEENTH STEP by Jules Griffon Psychiatric researchers now say a drunk can drink again – without going back to the gutter Can the “cured”...
The important part, This father writes, is how It all begins An Alcoholic’s Letter To His Son (Condensed from Denver Post) Anonymous Dear R….: When...
When A Parent Drinks Too Much by Jeannine Locke Children of alcoholics can find help for their special problems in an organization called Alateen. The...
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM ABOUT ALCOHOLISM It’s a disease as well as a personal and social catastrophe. That discovery makes the big difference in treatment....
It started quite casually. Then, almost before I knew it, my life had become a nightmare. I Was An Alcoholic Housewife It still isn’t clear...
Behavior: Anonymous Ally The more money he made in the 1920s bull market, the more Wall Street Analyst William Griffith Wilson hit the bottle. “Men...
Young Living: My Parents Drink Too Much by Abigail Wood Q: I’m seventeen, from a good home and I love my parents, but they drink–to excess....
The Neglected Tragedy of Alcoholism ALCOHOLISM Alcoholism is worldwide problem of enormous dimensions. It wrecks families, ruins health – and kills. There are definite Reasons...
A Farewell to Alcohol by William McIlwain Of every three men who try to stop drinking at Butner, two fail. Butner, North Carolina I was...
I WAS A TEEN ALCOHOLIC The Number one drug turn-on among teens today is alcohol. Half of the heavy users among teens are likely to...
ALCOHOLISM: New Victims, New Treatments From the day man first sipped the liquid collecting around honey or fruit left too long in a warm place,...
Life with an alcoholic seemed unbearable to this husband, Until he found An Oasis Called Al-Anon Condensed from FAMILY HEALTH ROBERT ELLIOTT (a pseudonym) As...
ALCOHOLICS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT THAT THEY’VE DISCOVERED ALCOHOL by Philip Marchand There is no health in us, according to the...
Programs That Will Help You Stay On The Wagon In the current hit film, Neil Simon’s Only When I Laugh, actress Marsha Mason portrays an...
H E A L T H More and more Americans are struggling to break the grip of drugs and alcohol and they’re turning to a...
Alcoholism Treatment The Human Relations Area Files has announced the conclusions reached through a twelve-month review of 134 studies bearing on the effectiveness of Alcoholics...
Fifty Years, A Day At A Time To the thousands of people whose lives the organization has saved, the 50th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous, which...
