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VANCE FERRELL

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Yo u m a y o n l y b e a s o c i a l d r in k e r,b u t d o n t t a k e i t f o r g r a n t e d : L i -q u o r is s o m e t h in g t o g e t rid o f !

Th i s b o o k w i ll t el l yo u h o w t o d oi t. S tep -b y - s tep w ays t o q u i t , p l usn u t r it io n a l in f r o m a t i o n t h a t c a nh e l p e l i m i n a t e t h e c r a v in g .

Fo r yo u r o w n s a k e , a n d t h a t o fy o u r lo v e d o n e s , r e a d t h i s b o o k !

VANCE FERRELL

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You Can Quit Alcohol

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You Can Qui t A lc ohol / Cont ent s page 3

C ont ent s

C ont ent s...........................................................................3

H ow t o U se t his B ook ........................................... 4

M ak ing D ecisions ........................................................5

T he L iquor I nd ust ry ................................................ 12

K nows Y ou A re a S uck er ............................ 12

S ome F act s about A lcohol ..................14

E f f ect s of A lcohol ...................................... 18

on t he B od y ........................................................ 18H ow t o Q uit A lcohol - 1 ..................................2 0

H ow t o Q uit A lcohol - 2 ................................ 2 3

H ow t o Q uit A lcohol - 3 ................................2 8

S t il l M ore F act s ................................................... 3 2

A d d ing a B et t er L if e .......................................... 3 8


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H ow t o U se t his B ook

It i s n o t d i f f icu l t t o become a n a l coho li c . J u s t k eep d r i nk i ng , and i n

t he cour s e o f t im e you a r e ver y l i ke l y t o becom e one .

The on ly way out is to q uit. Butfirs tyou m us t wan t to s top. While living

in Illinois, we had a friend who was so a ffable that th e entire far m comm un ity

liked him . But h e was also an alcoholic. Once we had a long talk together with

him , and h e explained that h e would ra ther k eep dr inking. He said h e liked

drinking and he liked getting drunk.

But years of dr inking alcohol had weakened certa in intern al organs , andabou t a year after tha t convers ation we bur ied h im. Yet he was on ly in his ear ly

forties an d h ad a fine wife and several sweet childr en.

FIRST, you m us t want to stop . You a re tired of dr inking, and you a re tired

of all the trou ble it keeps br inging into your life. Yes, you m ay have pr oblem s

bu t alcohol is your biggest one, an d the cau se of most of the other s. You k now

it. You ad m it it. You ar e r ead y now to br eak with it.

SECOND, you a re going to read this b ooklet all the way to the end and

carr y your decision th rou gh. Th ere is h elp in this little book; help that you

need just n ow. vf

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Chapter One

M ak ing D ecisionsT H E N IG H T H E D ID IT

S top, I need y our h elp!

It was in Detr oit, Michigan , several years ago.

It w as ear l y even i ng an d I w as a bou t t o w a l k i n t o t he bu i ld i ng w her e

I w as ho ld i ng m ee t ings . A m an w a l ked u p t o m e and s a i d , Ar e you Mr.

F i nney?

Yes , I rep lied .

Please, w hen you get th rough tonight, w ill you com e hom e w ith m e. I

ne ed to ta lk to y ou. All right , I w ill. You w a it for m e. I walked insideand

som e of the men stopped m e.

What does the m an want?

He wants me to go home with him after the meeting tonight.

Dont do i t . Hes k now n t o be da ng erou s .

Im sor ry, bu t I pr om ised a nd I sha ll go with h im.

When the service was over that evening, I went with the man three blocks

down the str eet and then into an alley, and stopped. The m an unlocked the

door an d s aid, Com e in. Walking into the r oom , I foun d th e m an locking thedoor b ehind m e, and th en reach ing into his pocket he pulled out a r evolver an d

held i t in h is h and .

I dont in ten d to do y ou an y ha rm , he s a id . I jus t w an t to as k y ou

a f e w q u e s t io n s . Did you mean what you sa id in your ser m on last night?

Wh at d id I sa y? I have forgotten .

You s aid, The b lood of J esu s Chr ist cleans es u s from all sin.

Yes , Go d says so.

Then he s aid to m e, You s ee this r evolver? It has killed four peop le. It is

m ine. Two of them were killed b y m e, two of them by my bar tender in a br awl

in my saloon. Is ther e hope for a m an like me?

Yes. Th e blood of J esu s Chr ist clean seth us from all sin. Chr ist can

forgive you a nd help you ob ey the Com m and m ents of God.

Then the m an said, Brother Finn ey, anoth er q uestion. In the back of this

pa rt ition is a sa loon. I own it, everything in it. Well sell every k ind of liquor to



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anybody who comes along. Many times I ha ve taken the last p enny out of a

mans pocket, letting his wife and children go hungry. Many times women have

br ought their b abies her e and pled with m e not to sell any mor e booze to their

hu sba nd s, bu t I have driven them out an d k ept on with the whiskey selling. Is

there hope for a m an like m e?

God s ays, The blood of J esus Christ His Son , cleans eth u s from all sin.

[1 J ohn 1:7].

Anoth er q ues tion, Broth er Finn ey, In b ack of this oth er p ar tition is a

gam bling joint an d it is as crooked as s in and Satan . There isnt a decent wheel

in the whole place. It is all loaded and crooked . A m an leaves the s aloon with

som e mon ey left in h is pocket, and we tak e his m oney away from him in our

gambling hall. Men have gone out of that gambling den to commit suicide when

their m oney, and per hap s entr us ted fun ds , were all gone. Is ther e any hope for

a m an like m e?

God s ays, The b lood of J esus Christ, His Son , cleans eth u s from all sin.

One m or e qu estion, an d I will let you go. When you walk ou t of this a lley

you tu rn to the r ight a nd youll see a b rown-stone h ouse. It is m y hom e. I ownit. My wife is ther e, an d m y eleven-year old child, Mar gar et. Thir teen years ago

I went to New Yor k on bu sines s. I m et a b eau tiful gir l. I lied to her. I told h er I

was a stockbrok er, and she m arr ied m e. I brought her here, and when she

found out m y bu siness it br oke her hear t. I have mad e life a hell on ear th for

her. I have come hom e dr unk , beaten her, locked her out, and m ade h er l ife

m ore m iserable than that of any bru te beast . About a m onth ago I went h ome

one n ight d ru nk , m ean, m iserable. My wife got in the way som e how, an d I

star ted beating her. My dau ghter thr ew herself between u s. I slapped that girl

across the face and knocked h er against a r ed-hot stove. Her ar m is bu rn ed

from shoulder to wrist. It will never look like anything decent. Brother Finney,

is there hope for a m an like m e?

I took h old of the m ans s hou lders, s hook him , and said, Oh, son, wha t ablack s tory you h ave to tell! But God says, The b lood of J esus Christ, His Son ,

cleans eth us from all sin!

The m an s aw it. He looked a t m e a long mom ent an d th en said, Than k

you, Br other Finney. Tha nk you very mu ch. Now I kn ow. Pra y for m e. I am

coming to chur ch tom orr ow night. And I am going to do s om e chan ging.

I left that ba ck r oom a nd went hom e. The next m orn ing, about s even

oclock, the s aloon m an finally got finished with h is bu sines s a t his office and

leaving it hea ded acros s th e str eet to his h om e. His n ecktie was awry. His face

was du sty, sweaty, and tears tained. He was s hak ing as th ough he were d ru nk .

But lets go back to that room . That night h e had taken the swivel chair in

the office and smashed the mirror, the fireplace, the desk and the other chairs.

He had sm ashed the par tit ion on each side. Every bott le and bar rel and ba r

m irror in that saloon was shattered and b roken u p. The sawdust was swim-

m ing ankle deep in a terr ible m ixtur e of beer, gin, whiskey, an d wine. Th e

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m ent on the other s ide the tables were smas hed. The dice and car ds s m oldered

in the fireplace.

And then h e had cried for h our s ther e alone on his kn ees with God.

And so with it all over, he s taggered acros s th e str eet as th e su n a ros e,

walked up the stairs of his hom e, and sat d own heavily in the chair of his

room. His wife called the little girl, Maggie, run upstairs and tell daddy break-fas t is rea dy. The girl walked slowly up the s tairs . Half afraid , sh e stood in the

door and said, Dadd y, Mam m a said b reak fast was r eady; to come down.

Maggie, darling, daddy doesnt want any breakfast. That little girl didnt

walk; she just flew down those stairs. Mamma, daddy said, Maggie, darling,

an d he d idnt. Maggie, you d idnt un der sta nd . You go ba ck u ps tairs an d tell

da dd y to come d own. Maggie went b ack up stairs with th e m other following

her. The m an looked up as h e heard the childs step, spr ead his kn ees and

sa id, Maggie, com e h ere.

Sh yly, fr ighten ed, in a tr em ble, the little girl walked slowly up to h im. He

began cr ying as h e lifted her up , placed her on his kn ee, press ed h is face

against her chest an d wept. The wife, stan ding in the d oor, didnt kn ow whathad hap pened . After a while he n oticed her stan ding there an d said, Wife, come

here.

He sat her on his other knee, threw his large arm s ar ound those two whom

he loved, whom he ha d s o fearfully abu sed, lowered his face between th em , and

sobb ed un til the room almos t shook with the im pact of his feelings.

After s om e m inutes h e began to contr ol hims elf, looked u p into the faces of

his wife and girl, and s aid to them :

Wife an d d au ghter,you n eednt ever be a fr aid of m e an y m or e. God ha s

br ought you a n ew man , a new dad dy hom e today.

That s am e night th at m an, h is wife, and child, walked d own the aisle of the

chur ch, gave their hearts to Christ and joined the chur ch. He spent the r emain-der of his life trying to help other people. Many were the young people that he

warn ed to flee from liquor and cigar ettes and gam blingfor he well knew the

terr ible hole that they would br ing a m an into. Cha rles G. Finn ey .

H A N K S S T O R Y

I was at the top of my career. It ha pp ened in 194 0. Tha t was th e year I won

the m ost valuab le player in Am erican ba seb all awar d. I was getting a sa lary of

$40 ,000 .00 a year a t the time. But I started to dr ink h eavily. I began ar guing

with m y man ager, J oe McCarthy, an d with th e rest of the p layers . Then things

began to hap pen.

I sp ent the winter in tap room s. When s pr ing tra ining rolled ar oun d I was

20 pounds overweight. (Dont let them tell you that liquor takes off thepou nd sit ad ds them .) I couldnt stop dr inking. I couldnt hit. That year m ost

exper ts figur ed Id br eak Babe Ruths r ecord. But I ended up hitting only 13

home runs .

I was s us pend ed before the seas on was over. I dr ank m ore tha n ever. I got



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booted from one m inor league club to another. I worked at odd jobs, spen t all

of m y m oney, m ost of it in ba r r oom s. Fina lly I got sick. While I was r ecup era t-

ing in that hosp ital, I had a lot of time to think .

Ther e ar e kids in a nd out of baseball who im agine tha t becaus e they ha ve

talent t hey ha ve th e world by the ta il. It isnt s o. In life you n eed t hings like

good advice and common sense. Dont be so big that you cant accept advice.

And if youve gotten into liquor, be willing to let someone tell you how to get

out. Hank Wilson, in the Chicago Daily New s.

P R E S ID E N T G R A N T S S O N

I tried to d rink with extrem e m oder ation, because I kn ew that alcohol is

the worst poison a m an can take into his system ,but I foun d out tha t it was

an imp ossibility to drink m odera tely.

The fact that I indulged at all, compelled me to drink on every occasion it

was offered, or b e cons idered ab su rd by m y ass ociates.

For th at r eason, b ecause m oder ate dr inking is an abs olute im poss ibility, I

ha ve becom e an ab solute teetota lera cra nk , if you p lease. I will not allow it in

m y house.When they as k, Have a d r ink with us , just tell them , I never dr ink . A m an

never has to drink.

The fact is that the har d d rinker was once a m oderate dr inker and the

chan ces are all against the m oder ate dr inker r ema ining such. and I,well, I,

for one, d ont pr opose to take su ch a cha nce. Gen eral Frede rick D. Gran t,

son of President Ulysses S. Grant.

H E N A IL E D IT T H E R E

En ter ing the office of a well-k no wn b u sin ess m an in New Yor k City, I foun d

a placard nailed to a desk . Sur pr ised at this, I read i t:

WHICH? Wife or Whisk y, th e Babes o r th e Bot tles , HE AVEN OR HE LLSeeing what I was r eading, the bu sinessm an, q uite successful in his work,

explained: I wro te tha t m yself. Som etime b ack I foun d m yself falling into th e

hab it of dr inking. It was just an occasional glass with a friend . Soon m y stom -

ach got bad , m y faculties becam e du lled, and a consta nt cra ving for s tim ulants

dom inated m e. I saw tears in m y wifes eyes an d wond er on the faces of m y

childr en. One day I sat d own and wrote that card and then looked at it. And

the m ore I looked a t it, the awful mes sage that it contained bu rs t on m e. So I

nailed it ther e and read it several times each da y. I went hom e sober that n ight,

and have not touched a dr op ever since.

It was all a matter of what was most important in my life. Once I had

settled th at in m y mind, a ll the r est fell into place. And m y decision was m ad e.

John Dyer.

W H E R E D ID S H E G ET IT ?

A fatal accid en t, involving the lives of fou r youn g peo ple, took pla ce up on

one of the nations highways. The evidence that liquor was the culprit was



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found in th e brok en whisky bott les am ong the d ebris and m angled bod ies of

the four youth ful victim s. Th e fath er of one of the girls in frenzied a nguish over

the tr agic death of his beau tiful dau ghter thr eatened to k ill the one who had

provided the four young people with liquor. That evening he went to the shelf in

his bedr oom wher e he kept his own sup ply of choice beverages, and th ere

found a note written in his daughters handwriting, Dad, were taking along

some of your good liquorI know you wont mind. That was the last thing shehad ever written. Ja m es Kingm an.

M O N E Y IN T H E IR P O C K E T S

One of the finest th ings th at could h ave hap pened to the br ewing ind us try

was the insistence by high-ranking Army officers to make beer available at

Arm y cam ps . Here is a chan ce for b rewers to cu ltivate a tas te for b eer in m il-

lions of young men who will eventually constitute the largest beer-consuming

section of our pop ulation. The Brew er s Digest .

A work er wh o was fond of beer told h is wife an d ch ild on e m or ning of a

dr eam he had had . He had s een four rats. The first was large, fat , and sleek;

two were very, very thin; an d th e last was blind . Neither he n or his wife could

find an y explanation for the d ream , but th ey were uneas y, having heard that

rats br ought bad luck.

The little boy, h owever, had an idea.

The big fat one, Daddy, was the tavern keeper on the corner who gets all

your m oney. The two thin rats a re m other an d m e. And you ar e the blind one.

From a French n ew spa per article, Montreal, Can ad a.

T H E B A B E

Babe Ruth was offered a good su m of m oney if he would p erm it a ph otog-

ra ph er to take his picture with a bottle of beer in his han d, for a n ational

ad vertising camp aign.

The Babe said quietly: No, I have autographed too many baseballs for boyswho ha ve tru sted in m e. I will do n othing to help a dvertise the sale of beerby

m y actions or m y picture. Thos e boys see m e as a her o, and Ill not d o anything

to lessen th eir esteem of m e. Bob Appleton, in th e Los Angeles Tim es.

W H Y H E W O U L D N T

Here is why I will never dr ink: 1. God never m ad e a h um an being who in a

norm al state needs alcohol. 2. God n ever m ade a hum an being strong enough

to begin the us e of alcohol and be su re th at he would n ot become its victim . 3.

God never fixed a day in a human life after which it is safe to begin the use of

intoxicating liquors. William J enn ings Brya n.

W H A T B O O Z E D O E S

I am a gainst alcohol: Because I have kn own un bor n b abes to be cur sed

through booze; little children to starve because of booze; young people to be

stun ted for life thr ough booze; gifted wom en to become imbeciles th rou gh

booze; leader s in indu str y to become b eggar s in the s treet becaus e of booze;

wedding rings to b e sold for booze; fortu nes to be sq uan der ed for booze; girls



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to become pr ostitutes throu gh booze; boys to become crim inals throu gh booze;

women to b e han ged becau se of booze; men to go to the electric chair becaus e

of booze! Cathe rine Booth.

T H O M A S E D IS O N

To put a lcohol in th e hum an s ystem is like putting sand in the bear ings of

an engine. Thom as A. Edison.T H E G R EA T R E M O V E R

Som e one has s aid that alcohol will rem ove stains from su m m er clothes.

This m ay be true, but stains from sum m er clothes ar e not the only things

alcohol will r em ove.

Alcohol will rem ove the s tain a ll right, bu t it will rem ove the s um m er

clothes a s well. And it will rem ove the sp ring clothes a nd the au tum n clothes

and winter clothes.

Alcohol will not on ly do this for th e m an who d r inks it, but it will also d o it

for a ll those for whom he is r espon sible.

Alcohol will rem ove good food from the d inner tab le, and s hoes fr om the

ba bys feet.

It will rem ove hap piness from the hom e, and then r emove the poss ibility of

its ever r eturn ing.

It will rem ove sm iles from the faces of those you love, an d lau ghter from

the lips of your innocent childr en, and warm clothing from their back s.

Yes, alcohol is a great rem over! It can rem ove m ore th ings th an m ost

an ything else.

An d wh ile ther e is s till tim e, jus t n ow, r em ove it from your life. Youll

always be tha nk ful that you d id.

H IT T H E K N A C K

Dear Ann,

Im sixteen, and have ma de u p m y m ind n ot to dr ink, bu t people m ake it

very hard for m e to refus e. They keep on ins isting and p ress ing and som e get

scor nful an d a ngry if I say,

Im sor ry; Id ra ther ha ve an or an gead e. Wha ts th e bes t way to refuse?

(Signed) M.

Dear M: No n eed to s ay, Im so r r y. You invite them to p er su ad e you if you

sound apologetic. All that is necessary is a Thank you; I only take soft drinks.

Hit the kn ack of being prou d a nd glad an d grateful for b eing able to hold on to

your stan dar ds . I kn ow you can do it. Stick to it. Ann Temp le, in her new s-

pa pe r fea ture, Hum an Cas e Book , in the Lond on Daily Mail.

C H A R R IN G T O N S D E C IS IO N

Frederick Char rington was the young heir of Charr ington, Head a nd Co.,

the large interna tional London -bas ed b rewery.

One da y on th e str eet, he saw a woman with h er little girl go into a b ar and

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plead with her hu sba nd for som e mon ey. The childr en were crying for br ead.

His r eply was to knock h er an d the child down. Looking up , Cha rr ington saw

his n am e, Char rington, em blazoned in gold on the b ar room door. I cant stay

with liquor! he sa id, and he gave up a m illion an d a qu ar ter d ollars b rewery

inheritance. Aberdeen Exp ress.

H E D ID N T B E L O N G T H E R E E IT H E R

A tr aveler in Scotlan d found in a fisher m ans hom e a str iking picture of the

Saviour.

How did you ob tain pos sess ion of this p ictur e? he as ked the m an who

lived ther e. All abou t him h e saw signs of a hap py home, an d h e was s ur pr ised

at the firs t words he hea rd in reply.

I was a great d rink er a nd sp ent a lot of time in the pu bs. On e night I was

way down with the dr ink an d stu m bled into a pub. And there h un g His

picture! It m ade m e sober in an instant.

I said to the b ar tender : Sell m e that p ictur e; this is no p lace for th e Sav-

iour. I gave him all the m oney I had in m y pocket a nd took it hom e. I dropp ed

on m y knees an d cr ied, 0 Lord J esus, pick m e up a gain! Pick m e up a gain outof my sin!

That p ra yer was a ns wered an d tod ay I am the ha pp iest m an in the village.

But didnt you have a struggle to give it up?

When the h ear t is open to the S aviour, He can ta ke ou t of it the love of

dr ink. It is crying to Christ a nd clinging to Chr ist that m ak es all the d ifference.

Cha pp el Clovis

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Chapter Tw o

T he L iquor I nd ust ryK nows Y ou A re a S uck er

When you buy l iqu or, you ar e pu t t ing mon ey in th e pocket s of a few

men who th ink you are a sucker. They are not your fr iends .

B y t h e ir o w n s t a t e m e n t s , t h e y a r e w o r k i n g t o r u in n o t o n ly y o u , b u t y our ch i ldren as w el l:

We mu st not forget that our bus iness is depen dent u pon th e sufferan ce

[per m ission] of the p ub lic. We ar e not in a position like th e sh oe bus iness,

clothing bu siness, flour bu siness or the steel business .Th e Brew ers Diges t,

February 19 44 [a m aga z ine of the bee r-m ak ing ind ustry].

We believe a teenage m oder ation p rogram [to get m ore teenagers dr inking]

sh ould b e ad opted with som e real str ength b ehind it. Were told th is is too

tick lish . We d ont a gree .Spirits , Novem ber 1955, page 44 [the m agaz ine of

w ine and liquor m an ufacturing exe cutives].

Beer m us t comp ete with coffee, tea, milk, and a whole arr ay of carb onated

beverages. The brewing indu str y has not foun d a s atisfactory answer to thepr oblem of intr odu cing beer to a h igh p ercentage of the youn ger generation tha t

is com ing along. This is pa r ticularly true of the civilian [non -militar y] elemen t,

which, after a ll is the b ig per centa ge of the p eople.The B rew ers Diges t,

February 195 2, page 65. ]Accom pan ying this statem ent w as a large picture,

filling on e-fourth of the pa ge, of a child, not over five y ea rs of age, play ing

w ith a toy be er truck .]

Heres a chance for brewers to cultivate a taste for beer in millions of

young men who will eventually constitute the largest beer-consuming section of

our popu lation.The Brew ers Digest . May, 194 1. [S pea k ing about the

increas ing num ber of youn g m en joining the U.S. m ili tary, on the e ve of

World War II. As y ou can s ee , the booz e ty coons w ere qu ite pa triotic: the yconsidered i t m ore im portan t to get our soldiers drunk , than to w in the w ar.]

Beer has come into its own an d m ore peop le have an ap petite for beer

today since the war, becaus e our recr uits were fur nished with p lenty of

beer!.The Brew ers Bullet in , Ju ne 13, 1946. [This s tatem ent w as m ade

just after World War II.]

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Sh ow youn g people how to en joy liqu or. Tra in your pu blicity to catch th e

eye an d d evelop the inter est of the youn ger gener ation. Make youth liqu or

conscious.Objectives of the l iquor ind ustry, sta ted at a liquor dea lers

conve ntion, held in the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1935.

Sociological stud ies give evidence that m ore a nd m ore teena gers ar e dr ink-

ing . . and ar e dr inking greater qua ntities tha n ever b efore.Editorial in

Tavern Topics, the J ournal of the Washington Sta te Licens e Be verage Asso-

ciat ion, J une 1954.

Brewers were among the first to realize that television could play a big part

in increasing the cons um ption of beer, especially in the h om e. And m any of

them h opped on the TV band wagon as q uickly as comm uters h op on a r ush

hou r s ub way.

In relation to all other types of prod ucts, b eer is a str ongly advertised

pr odu ct, holding a pr om inent position, second to foods , in television ad vertis-

ing.

And br ewers were quick to jum p on the TV spor ts ba nd wagon at th e very

outset. By doing so they were ab le to dom inate TVs m ost n atur al entertain-m ent, and came u p with good aud ience ratings without the talent and prod uc-

tion costs of dr am atic and variety sh ows.

Television h as offered the br ewers a u nique a dvantage. It has op ened a vast

new m ark et, almost untapped: the American hom e .Th e Brew ers Diges t,

Sep tem ber 1950, pages 60-61.

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Chapt er Three

S ome F act s about A lcohol

Med i ca l r e s ear ch h as p r oven t ha t t he t ak i ng o f a l coho l in t o t h e body

i n a n y f or m o r q u a n t it y i m p a i r s t h e j u d g m e n t , n o rm a l re s t r a in t , a n d

t h e p e rf o rm a n c e o f s k i lle d m o v em e n t s . T h i s m e a n s t h a t i t m a t t e r s n o t

w he t her i t be beer, w i ne , o r har d l i quor it i s equa l ly dan ger ous and

t he u s e o f any o f i t can t u r n y ou i n t o an a l coho li c .

Ten to twenty-five teaspoons of pure alcohol will cause obvious drunken-

ness. A bottle of 4% beer (360 c.c.) contains 4 teaspoons of alcohol. Fouroun ces (120 c.c.) of wine (14% alcohol) contains 4 teaspoon s of alcohol. Three

ounces of fortified wine (21% alcohol) contains 5 teaspoons of alcohol. Eight

teaspoon s (32 c.c.) of whisky contains 4 teas poons of alcohol.

Statistics ind icate that on e per son in every seven tha t begins d rink ing end s

up as a confirm ed alcoholic. The only ans wer that m edical science kn ows for

avoiding the addictive properties of alcohol is total abstinence.

Here is a m edica l de f in i t ion o f a lcohol:

Alcohol, from a m edical point of view, is an intoxicating, hypnotic, an es-

thetic, nar cotic, depr essan t, dam aging, poisonous , and hab it-form ing dr ug.

1. Alcohol is intoxicating, because dr unk enness is created by its use.

2. Alcohol is hypnotic, becaus e it tends to pu t peop le to sleep.

3. Alcohol is an esthetic, becaus e in higher dos es it ind uces a deep s leep out

of which a p erson can ha rd ly be wakened .

4. Alcohol is a nar cotic, becaus e in large doses it stup efies.

5. Alcohol is a d epr essan t, because it depr esses (that is, slows d own) the

central nervous s ystem and a n um ber of body functions.

6. Alcohol is damaging, because it gradually destroys brain cells.

7. Alcohol is a poison, b ecause in large doses it will kill a h um an being, an

animal, or a plant that h as b een exposed to i t .

8. Alcohol is habit-forming because with continued use a fixed desire will be

created to r epeatedly dr ink it.

Her e a r e s om e pr ob lem s t ha t a l coho l has b r ough t t o Am er ica :

J uve nile Delinqu ency : fr om 25 -75 % of juvenile delinqu ency is dir ectly or

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Divorce: from 25-75% of all divorces are directly or indirectly due to alco-

hol.

Misde m ean or an d felony crim es: ar e repor ted to be due to alcohol in at

least 50% of the cas es.

Arrests for drunk enn ess: In a r ecent year, over 7 ,000 ,000 ar res ts for

dr unk enness occurred in the United States.Econom ic loss: It is estimated that th e economic loss, du e to alcohol, costs

Am erica mor e than $10 ,000 ,000 ,000 year ly.

Sen se of values: In th e United S tates there are 5 37,303 schools an d

chur ches, and 582,033 retail liquor stores an d saloons. In a r ecent year,

12,500,000 ,000 was s pent on all religious a nd educational pur poses, whereas

18,250,000,000 was spent on alcoholic beverages.

Alcohol does som e things tha t the l iquor ads n ever m ention: It destroys

br ain cells, fatty tissue, an d b ody heat balance. It seriously dam ages th e ner-

vous system. It lessens disease res istance, hear ing, ner ve sen sitivities, good

judgment, and vision. It deadens ones sense of fatigue. It slows physical reac-

tions . It scar s liver tissu e. It ru ins the b ra in.Scores of tests revea l the sa m e thing: alcohol always r edu ces efficiency

and safety: When you take 1 sh ots of whiskey, or 1 bottles of beer, or 1

glasses of wine,your reaction time is s lowed 6 %. When you tak e 3 sh ots of

whisky, or 3 bottIes of beer, or 3 glasses of wine, your reaction time is

slowed 34 %. To an au tomob ile dr iver this would m ean th at, at a sp eed of 50

m iles per hour, it would r equire 17 ad ditional feet to br ing a car to a s top. But

this pr oblem is comp ound ed by the fact that loaded dr ivers a re m ore confi-

dent, take m ore risks, a nd have far less coordination an d good judgment.

In an y given year, a d rin kin g driver is genera lly involved in ab out on e-half of

all fatal accidents. Som e exper ts p lace it as high a s 6 0%.

Alcoholic b evera ges conta in ethyl alcohol, which is a n a nesth eticnot astimu lant. Its effects ar e inevitable. It und erm ines p ower of decision, d istorts

judgment, impairs eyesight, retards muscular reaction, and increases acci-

dents .

Six out of every ten ar rests in the United S tates ar e related to alcohol. Two

thir ds of toda ys a lcoholics b egan dr inkin g when of high sch ool age. A few year s

ago one out of every six alcoholics was a wom an ; now it is on e in four. This

means over a million women alcoholics. In Los Angeles County, three out of

every four a pp lications for d ivorce or sepa ra te maintena nce du ring 1955 r e-

su lted becau se of a liquor pr oblem. More tha n 40 ,000 p eople ar e killed each

year becaus e of a liqu or-ind uced accidents .

The form er a lcoholic kn ows that h is only safeguar d is total ab stinence forthe r est of his life. He mu st s tay away entir ely fr om liqu or in every form . Even

to take on e gulp will awaken a dem on of craving within h im.

Ther e is on ly one a ns wer: leave it totally alone. Alcoholism us ua lly begins

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dr ink or two, with a boss or client. It is easy to start, not s o easy to stop. The

pr essu res a re ther e to conform , but it tak es a m an to say No, I choose not to;

thank you.

Case histories of all kind s ar e to be foun d in book s an d m agazines. News-

paper s r un stories on them. But at the hear t of them all is the sim ple fact that

it all began with on e dr ink.

If you h ave never h ad tha t first d r ink; d ont tak e it. If you a re h aving trou ble

keeping it un der control; stop and never a gain take th at first d rink .

Having mad e that decision, you ar e don e with it! And you a re glad you a re

don e with it. And you can than k th e God of heaven every day that you ar e don e

with it.

At the pr esent time over h alf the ad ult popu lation of our nation d rink

alcoholic beverages. Some eight to nine million of these are known alcoholics.

But there ar e also those who ar e secret alcoholics. A su rp rising nu m ber of

wom en fall into this category. Not long ago, Har vey Fisk e of the National Coun -

cil on Alcoholism was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, Today there

are p robab ly as m any women alcoholics as m en, and they m ay be doing moreda m age and be even far ther a way from help than m en. This is because so

m any wont ad m it they have a r eal prob lem .

We cannot solve a problem we deny that we have. No one ever stopped

sm oking or d rink ing un til he cam e to the point of adm itting that h e had a

pr oblem and dar ed n ot continue any longer.

In 19 70, the Rutgers Center for Alcohol Stud ies m ad e what was pr obab ly

the lar gest single stu dy of Am erican d rink ing practices. A total of 2,74 6 a du lt

Am ericans were picked a t ra nd om and interviewed by a George Wash ington

University resear ch team . Fun ded b y a federa l gra nt of $40 0,00 0, the stu dy

findings were later placed in a book, Am erican Drink ing Practices. This is

what th ey discovered:

Drinker s comp ose 68% of the population, and abstainers (non-drinkers)

compr ise 32%.

The h eavy dr inkers (12%) us ually dr ink n early every day, but som e dr ink

less freq uently, tak ing five or m ore d rink s each time th ey do.

The mod erate drinkers (13%) dr ink from once to several t im es a m onth,

taking an average of thr ee to four dr inks each time.

The l ight d rinkers (28%) dr ink at least once a m onth, and at each t ime take

one or two drinks .

Infrequen t dr inker s (15%) dr ink varying am ounts less frequen tly than once

a month.

More m en dr ink than women, bu t the num ber of dr inking women isstead ily incr easing. Of the m en s ur veyed, 7 7% dr ink at least occasionally; of

the wom en 60 % dr ink. Yet ten years ea r lier, only 45 % of the wom en were

drinking.

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Russian , Polish, or Baltic origins. Irish imm igra nts were the h ighest: 9 3%, with

31% heavy dr inkers . The Rutgers s tud y also revealed that thos e who attend

chur ch r egularly ar e 50% less likely to be heavy dr inkers than those who h ave

no ch ur ch affiliation. Yet there was dr inking am ong chur ch m em bers : At the

top of the list were J ews, Episcopalian s, an d Rom an Cath olics, in that ord er.

The h ighest p ercentage of dr inker s live in the Northeas t (79%), an d the

second highest on th e Pacific Coast (73%). The lowest was foun d in the S outh-

ern S tates, and the avera ge (abou t 35%) was in the South Centr al States.

The heaviest drinkers (1) come from families where the parents drank also,

(2) their origin is in ethnic grou ps , such as th e Irish , where d rink ing is quite

common, (3) their religion (Roman Catholic, for example) places little or no

restraint on drinking, and (4) they live in large cities where heavy drinking is

prevalent.

Here are two interes ting statem ents:

Add iction to alcohol is the n um ber one h ealth pr oblem in the n ation,

Dr. Roger O. Egeb erg, Assistan t S ecreta ry for Hea lth an d S cien tific Affairs,

Departm ent of Health, Education, an d Welfare, Washington D.C.The p rovision of adeq uate m an power a nd facilities to tr eat all alcoholics

with p resen tly kn own m ethods on a one-to-one bas is would in itself utilize the

full time of every ph ysician a nd fill every hos pital bed in th e na tion.The

Nationa l Insti tutes of Health, Be thesd a, Maryland .

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Chapter Four

E f f ect s of A lcoholon t he B od y

A lcoho l f ools peop le . They t h i nk i t has done one t h i ng f o r t hem w hen

i n r ea li t y i t has accom p l is h ed j u s t t h e oppos i t e . Dr ink i ng s om e o f it , a

p e r s o n im a g in e s h e h a s b e c om e s t r o n g , w h e n h e i s b e c om i n g w e a k e n e d ;h e t h i n k s h e i s b e c om i n g w a r m e r, w h e n h is b o d y i s a c t u a lly b e c om in g

co lder. It ap pear s t ha t he i s be i ng ener g iz ed b y t he a l coho l, w h en i n

r ea li t y h i s coord i na t i on , nu t r i t ion an d s t r eng t h a r e be i ng l e s s en ed . He

t h i n k s t h a t t h e a l c oh o l i s s t i m u l a t in g h i m , w h e n a c t u a l ly it i s d e p r e s s -

i n g h is e n t i r e p h y s i c a l s y s t e m .

Alcohol first increases s toma ch acid secretions, and then slows them d own.

It irr itates the s toma ch lining, r esulting in congestion, inflamm ation, an d

ulceration. A chr onically-inflamed stom ach is the resu lt of regularly dr inking

liquor.

Alcohol also develops in alcoholics a disease known as cirrhosis of the liver.

Many sm all ar eas within it are gra du ally destr oyed an d r eplaced by scar tissue.As th e destr uction of liver cells con tinues, the liver tr ies to m ak e new ones, b ut

scar tissue keeps bu ilding up where the dead cells once were. These scar

nodules give the liver an appearance of being hob-nailed.

The dam age and scarr ing reduces pr oper b lood circulation thr ough th is,

the largest organ in your body. Impaired circulation to the liver strongly affects

the stom ach, intestines, and s pleen, and th ose organs also su ffer.

The back pr essu re, caus ed by blood b eing held b ack from entering the liver,

begins to caus e blood plasm a to flow out from the per itoneal veins into the

abd om inal cavity behind the liver. There it accum ulates, som etim es in su ch

large qu antities th at it mu st be d ra wn off rep eatedly in ord er to r elieve the

alcoholic of severe d istention an d discom fort.

We call this n ightm ar e cirr hos is of the liver. It is pr ogress ive, and gener ally

end s in d eath . Yet it could b e entirely avoided . Drink ing liqu or was the ind irect

cause of the problem. Stopping the alcohol was the only real way to solve it.

Drinking alcohol produces warm, flushed skin. The drinker feels warmer

becaus e m ore b lood is flowing throu gh th e skin vessels. But the blood is being

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dr awn from inside the b ody, which b ecomes grad ually cooler. Body tem per a-

tur e keeps falling. Som e people think that d rink ing liqu or will warm them up

in cold weather. But th is is not really tru e.

Alcohol lowers resistance to disease (especially pneumonia). Medical re-

por ts h ave dealt with this fact in detail. Here is an examp le of this: The Cook

County Hospital, in Chicago, sum m arized the death rates am ong 3,422 pn eu-

m onia cases, as follows:

49.87% of them were excessive dr inkers; 34 .40% were m oderate dr inker s;

22.45% were occasional drinkers.

Drink ing alcohol s hor tens the life sp an dr as tically. For ty-three U.S. life

insuran ce com panies had death r ecords of 2,000,000 policyholders who died

between 1885 and 1905 , They were su m m arized as follows:

People drink ing 2 glass es of beer or 1 of whisk y per da y were 18% mor e

likely to die than the average American.

Those with a past record of heavy drinking, but with present apparent cure

were 50 % higher.

Thos e us ing over 2 glass es of beer or 1 of whisk y da ily were 86 % higher.Alcohol, when it enter s th e blood str eam and is carr ied to the liver, begins

being converted into carbon dioxide and water. This oxidation is quite slow,

am oun ting to abou t 2 teas poons of alcohol an hou r. (If it were food, it would be

equa l to the bod y using up two cubes of sugar each hou rand that is slow!)

Alcohol is n ot a food, and cann ot be stor ed in th e bod y. Also it r ema ins in

the sa m e form un til converted into oxygen an d water, so it pr ovides no n our-

ishm ent of any kind. It aids in n either growth n or rep air. It is a u seless fluid in

the bod y, as far as help is concern ed; it is a dan gerous fluid in the b ody, when

all the da m age that it does is considered .

It neither b uilds up nor energizes any par t of the bod y. Instead it depr esses

the system a nd caus es a vicious add iction th at is difficult to break .

Drinking alcohol greatly hind ers pr oper nu trition for the b ody. Chron ic

alcoholics ar e always quite malnou rish ed. This is due to decr eased food intak e

(becau se they lose their a pp etite for food), decreased abs orp tion a nd utilization

of the food eaten (because of changes in the liver and digestive tract), and

increased need for food nutrients (because liquor-drinking increases body

requ iremen ts for calories an d cer tain vitamins , especially those of the B com -

plex).

Two ma lnutr ition d iseases th at alcoholics ar e m ost likely to develop ar e

these: (1) Beriberi, with its char acteristic dam age to the ner ves contr olling the

legs an d ar m s, or d am age to the genera l circulation, with weaknes s an d en-

largem ent of the hear t. (2) Pellagra , with a sor e tongue; ra sh over th e han ds ,ank les and neck; abdom inal pain, diarrhea, and serious mental changes.

Alcoholic consu m ption leads directly to severa l men tal diseases. A stud y by

Dr. Neil Dayton of Boston of over 5 6,00 0 p atients in Massach us etts, pr odu ced

the star tling discovery that chron ic alcoholism was a pr om inent caus e of one

fifth of all adm issions to m ental hosp itals in th at State!

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Chapter Five

H ow t o Q uit A lcohol - 1

Well, you k now y ou ve go t a p r ob lem . And y ou a r e de t er m i ned t o ge t

r id o f i t . Th a t i s t h e f ir s t s t ep i n do i ng it . Th i s ch ap t er, and t h e t w o t ha t

f o llow i t , w i ll t e ll you h ow y ou can t o s s t he bo t t l eand be done w i t h i t

forever!

Dr. Roger T. Williams of the University of Texas, a leading biochemist,

declares th at not on ly do a lcoholics ha ve a p oor d iet,but a poor diet tend s to

create alcoholics.

In s up por t of this, he s ays that d rink ing alcohol caus es a deficiency of the B

comp lex vitamins . But a lack of these vitam ins tend s to increas e the app etite

for carb ohydrates (sugar s a nd star ches). Alcohol, itself, being only a car bohy-

dr ate and a r obber of B vitamins, s tarts a vicious cycle within the h um an body.

By removing vitamins, it creates an artificial alcohol thirst.

Then ther e is Dr. U.D. Register of Lom a Lind a Un ivers ity in Califor nia. In

196 7 he cond ucted a ser ies of stud ies in which he fed a nor m al, Am erican diet

to rats.

The d iet consisted of hot d ogs, sp aghetti, m eat balls, sweet rolls, an d s oft

drinks. A control set of rats was given a diet of milk and vegetab les. In ad di-tion, b oth s ets of rats were given th e choice of 10% alcohol (abou t as m uch as

in wine), or p ur e water.

The rats that were fed the popular junk diet began tur ning m ore and m ore

to alcohol, until they were imbibing 12.8 ml. of it per 100 gm. of body weight

per week. Th e control grou p p referr ed water.

Then Dr. Register ad ded coffee to the pop ular dietand the alcohol con-

sum ption by those poor r ats shot up to 46 m l. per week!

It is of highest s ignificance th at after 10 weeks , the r ats on the p opu lar d iet

were switched entirely to the n utr itious diet,and within th e first week th eir

alcohol intake ha d gone down to 3.8 m l., and within thr ee weeks, m ost of the

ra ts h ad qu it alcohol entirely!This is imp ortan t news. If you want to q uit alcohol, you n eed to accom pan y

your other quitting activities with an improvement of your diet. Dr. Register

says it was a lack of the B vitam ins th at m ade th e difference in th e two sets of

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A third resea rch grou p, h eaded by Dr. Abr am Hoffer of Sask atchewan,

Canada, an d Dr. Hum phr ey Osmond of Princeton, N.J. h ad noticed that m any

of the p eople suffering with the m ental disor der, schizophr enia, tended to have

earlier been a lcoholics. Th ey were also awar e of the Am erican S chizophr enia

Foun da tion d iscovery that from 20 to 40 % of alcoholics a re par tially schizo-

phr enic. So Hoffer an d Osm ond wonder ed whether both cond itions could be

redu ced through pr oper nutr i tion.

Wha t they did was to give m as sive dos es of niacin (B3), vitam in C, B6, an d

other vitam ins. The r esults of this m egavitam in therap y were repor ted in the

J uly, 196 8 issu e of the British J ourna l of Psy chiatry.

The ther apy pr ogra m was originally plann ed only for s chizoph ren ics, bu t

since 40 % of those who were to r eceive the tr eatm ent were a lcoholics, the

thera py was extended to them ,and also to other alcoholics who did n ot show

signs of schizophr enia. The res ults were dr am atically su ccessful.

A four th r esear ch group , head ed b y Dr. Russ ell F. Sm ith, m edical director

of Michigan State Boys Training School, conducted a study in which 507

alcoholics were given massive vitamin B3 therapy. As he later reported, An

average of 6 gram s of vi tamin B3 (niacin) was given to th em each day.

Conclud ing his r eport in the October 1 968 issue of the Am erican Schiz ophre-

nia Found ation New sletter, he said, 87% of our grou p of har d core, trea tm ent

r esista nt, d ifficult alcoholics d erived ben efit.

Vitamin B3 is a very low-cost vitamin. Comparing his vitamin therapy with

m ethods us ed elsewher e, he said, B3 far su rp ass ed them in effectiveness . This

compar ison becomes m ore effective when we rem ember that m any dru gs today

us ed in the treatm ent of alcoholism h ave a high p otential for ab us e and for

su icide. When th e niacin [vitamin B3] is u sed ins tead, thes e serious risk s

become virtu ally non existent. This is a great ad vanta ge indeed. B3 far s ur-

passes other therapeutic agents commonly used in the treatment of alcoholics

(Ibid.)

Probab ly the m ost significant factor in this stu dy has been th e large grou p

who un der took it who h ave stayed p erm anen tly off alcohol after th e testing was

completed.

Part way through h is stud y, Dr. Sm ith m ad e the d iscovery that vitam in C

m us t be used in conjunction with niacin. He was alerted to the ma tter when

some of the patients complained of sustained weakness, dry skin, occasional

ra sh es or odd dietary cravings. Realizing that th e large doses of niacin were

tending to dep lete vitamin C in the b ody, he began add ing good-sized dos es of

the latter. (Urine tests have revealed that no vitamin C was being excreted,

indicating that the patients on the high-niacin diet were lacking in it.) But

average doses of 100 0 m g. of vitam in C, given t o each pat ient d ai ly, s olvedthe pr oblem, and all the side effects disapp eared .

Dr. David Ram on Hawk ins, d irector of the North Nass au Mental Health

Center, provides us with a fifth study into ways to nutritionally stop alcohol-

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m any of whom had pr evious ly been hos pitalized becaus e of their pr oblem.

Some had undergone psychotherapy or psychoanalysis for periods ranging up

to 20 year s. Som e of the pa tients fam ilies h ad s pent u p to $15 0,00 0 on years

of expens ive treatm ent which ha d been to n o avail, he s aid.

All of the pa t ients were given m assive doses of vi tamins B3 (niacin)

an d C, plus s izable amou nts of B6 (pyridoxine). They were also put on a

hypoglycemic diet ( low carbohydrate s , high p rotein, m edium fats , frequ ent

very smal l meals ). The pat ien ts were encouraged to not ea t m eat and keep

coffee drin king to a minim um , and exercise frequ ent ly.

It shou ld be noted her e that people that have both alcoholism and schizo-

ph ren ia are the ones m ost un likely to be helped ou t of their pr oblem. But the

res ults of Dr. Hawkins a pp roa ch were s pectacular, to say the least.

He said, By treating their sch izophr enia with m egavitamin thera py an d

simultaneously pushing them into Alcohol ics Anonymous , our r esults were

extrem ely good. Since we started us ing this new ap pr oach we have closed ou r

out-patient sh ock u nit. Hard ly any of these p atients need s to b e hosp italized

any m ore. The whole attitude of the patients a nd their families is so over-

whelm ingly different [that] there is no comp ar ison with the p revious situation.

In order to effect pr oper re sul ts th e vitam ins were given in large doses ,

somet imes a thousan d t imes larger than m inimum dai ly requi remen ts .

In add i t ion to B3, several other vi tam ins are used in the m egavi tamin

the rap y: vitam in C, pyridoxine (B6), B1, B12 , and vitam in E .

A sixth stud y, tha t was to pr ove qu ite revealing, was u nd ertak en b y Dr.

Ed m un d G. Flink, ch airm an of m edicine at West Virginia Univers itys m edical

school work ed for s om e tim e with alcholics, and concluded th at their alcohol-

developed deficiencies includ ed a ser ious lack of m agnesium .

Efforts to stop d rink ing br ing on del ir ium trem ens sym ptoms which ar e

identical to those exhibited by one who is seriously deficient in the trace min-

eral , magnesium. So un endur able are these sym ptoms that they m ake i t im -

poss ible for s om e to continue with th eir withdr awal from the alcohol.

But Dr. Flink d iscovered that a ll that was needed was for those com ing off

alcohol to simp ly take m ore m agnesium in th eir d iet. It did not even need to b e

injected. J ust tak ing dolomite tablets , obtainable at an y health food s tore,

would provide all the m agnesium th at they requ ired.

Dr. Flink s find ings were later confirm ed b y Dr. J ohn E. J ones of the West

Virginia Un iver sity Medical Cen ter.

Ther e are an swers; ther e is help available. The s imp le, nourishing foods,

which God h as g iven to m ankind , can so lve so man y of our p roblems . Let

us thank our heavenly Father for them, and use the blessings He has bestowed.Forever d ispense with the poisons a nd only par take of nu tritious food and

dr ink. And you will be hap py that you did s o.



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Chapt er Six


If you a r e no t in ver y d eep , y ou m ay be ab le t o qu i t w i t hou t t he

e n c o u ra g e m e n t o r h e lp o f o t h e rs . B u t y o u m a y f in d t h a t h a v i n g a f r ie n d

t o g o t h ro u g h t h e w i th d r a w a l is s o m e t h i n g y o u n e e d .

You m ay wish to talk it over with a loved on e or close acq ua intan ce. You

m ay want to d iscuss it with your ph ysician. If ther e is a pas tor of a chur ch

near by that you can talk an d p ra y with, all the better.Then th ere is Alcoholics Anon ym ous. This group h as h elped th ousa nd s.

They do it by encouraging one anoth er, and by helping one another adm it that

they cannot d o it alone,and that they need a Higher PowerGodto help

them d o it .

But f irst , becaus e y ou are likely to be told a bout i t , w e should m ention a

different w ay that is not as effective.

Temporary help through physician-suppl ied drugs. It is true tha t there

ar e ph ysicians and sp ecial hosp itals for the r ecovery of alcoholics. First comes

the im m ediate withd ra wal. Often th ey will attemp t to r elieve the withd ra wal

symp toms by adm inistering synthetic tran qu ilizers. Thes e include

chlordizepoxide, chlorpr omazine, m eprobam ate, pr omazine h ydr ochloride, orreserpine. The use of tranquilizers coupled with other therapeutic aids are

us ed to h elp you r ecover from del ir ium trem ens and hallucinations. Other

form s of treatm ent th en b egin. In alcoholic recovery hosp itals, th ese later

treatm ents ar e genera lly is based on ad ditional tran quilizing dru gs. These qu iet

the person an d m ake him m anageable during the t im e needed to withdr aw

from the powerful cravings for alcohol.

But ther e is dan ger in becom ing ad dicted to the tra nq uilizers, if they are

continued over too long a time at too h eavy a dosa ge. And , it should be noted ,

that s evere comp lications m ay res ult if tra nq uilizers a re later placed in a bod y

that h as r etur ned to alcohol. It is considered best, by pr ofessionals in the field,

that th e use of tranq uilizers sh ould only be given un der the car eful control and

frequ ent obs ervation of a p hysician.

So tra nqu ilizers can be dan gerous . They ar e also un necessa ry if the total

changeover in diet, given in the previous chapter is followed.

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One of these is frequ ently vitam in d eficiency. Anoth er ca n b e liver or circu latory

damage.

Som e physicians shu n the continued use of tran quilizers and instead u se

what is term ed aversion th erap y. A m easu red am oun t of an alcoholic bever-

age is given. But into tha t bevera ge a certa in am oun t of a n aus ea-pr odu cing

agent ha s been m ixed. Two such agents are ap om orp hine and em etine. In this

treatm ent, the a lcoholic receives tha t which he cr aves, the a lcohol, but in a

sh ort time it prod uces na us ea. This is intend ed to develop a loathing for alco-

hol. Aversion th erap y should a lso be accom pan ied b y close m edical super vi-

sion. Why? Because of the severe physical reactions.

The ab ove withd ra wal therap ies a re different types of dr ug thera py. Fre-

qu ently, the r elief obtained from them is tem por ar y.

A bet ter solut ion than drug-medicat ion. What is n eeded is a p lan of

action th at can carr y thr ough to a su ccessful term ination of alcoholwithout a

later r eturn to i t.

A proper d ie t , the h elp of God, and the en couragement of unders tand -

ing fr iends can do tha t which noth ing e l se can accomp l ish .Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anon ym ous was sta rted in 193 5 b y an

alcoholic who solved his massive problems with liquorsimply by trying to

help an other get off of alcohol. He became s o concerned to help an other p ers on

qu it, that h e quit him self. Why? Becaus e now he ha d s om ething worthwhile to

live for, someth ing im por tant to do. The effort to help oth ers is enn obling and

str engthening to the m ind a nd the willpower.

Thous and s of reform ed a lcoholics can testify to the help th ey have received

from Alcoholics Anon ym ous. It presen tly has a m emb ersh ip of several hu nd red

thous and all over th e world. They hold r egular m eetings in cities an d towns all

over the land .

Many cann ot un der sta nd how AA can help s o effectively when it h as so littleorganization to it. AA has no officers , r equires no d ues. It ha s n o constitution

or b ylaws. Each local group is autonomous , and not un der outside control .

Its only pu rp ose is to help alcoholics stop d rink ing and stay stopped . That

is all it does, bu t it does it rem ar kab ly well.

Upon arriving for the first time at an AA meeting, an alcoholic is surprised

with the r eception. He walks in, well aware of his p hysical weakness , em otional

conflicts, guilt feelings, an d s ocial isolation. Often he ar rives weaken ed in every

way, an d without har dly a solid friend anywhere.

There he d iscovers that m any of the h app y, cheerful people have, in the

pas t, had far worse experiences th an he n ow lives with da ily. They are r ecov-

ered alcoholics. Hear ing their stor ies, s eeing their r eturn to em otional s tability,su ccessful emp loym ent, hap py social life, he takes cour age that per hap s ther e

is hope for h im.

The AA m emb ers do n ot condem n h im; they just want to help him get off

liqu or. They do n ot try to sell him anything but friend sh ip and lots of free



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encour agem ent. He finds him self totally accepted by the grou p, an d th is keeps

him coming back to forthcom ing m eetings. Whenever he wishes, he can call

anoth er AA m emb er on the ph one an d talk to him . He will freq uently be given a

bud dy to especially encour age and help h im.

At the h eart of the Alcoholics Anon ym ous pr ogra m is a firm acceptance of

the belief that the help of a Higher Power the help of Godis needed in order

to receive the str ength a nd res isting, overcom ing help that is needed.

Friends at AA encou r age him to k eep at it. He m ay fully leave alcohol imm e-

diately; he may fail sometimes. But he has friends to give him a lift.

A person receives the most h elpan d receives it the m ost quickly

when he adm i ts that he i s an a lcohol ic , tha t h e cann ot s top by h imsel f,

that on ly God can do i t , and , mom ent by mom ent , he m us t thereaf ter re ly

upon God for the need ed help .

In or der to par t comp any with alcohol, you m us t pr ay to God for h elp. And

He will give that help to th e degree that you ar e ser ious abou t ha ving nothing

m ore to d o with liqu or.

Her e i s t h e t w e lve -po in t p r ogr am o f A lcoho li c s Anony m ous :ST EP 1. We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol; our lives had

becom e un m anageable.

ST EP 2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could

res tore us to san ity.

ST EP 3. We m ade a decision to tur n ou r will and our lives over to the car e

of God as we understood Him.

ST EP 4. We m ade a sear ching and fearless m oral inventory of our selves.

ST EP 5. We adm itted to God, to our selves, and to other hu m an b eings the

exact natu re of our wrongs.

ST EP 6. We were entir ely rea dy to ha ve God r em ove all these d efects ofcharacter.

ST EP 7. We hum bly ask ed Him to rem ove our sh ort com ings.

ST EP 8. We ma de a list of all per sons we had h ar m ed, an d b ecame willing

to make am ends to them all.

ST EP 9. We ma de d irect amen ds to such people whenever poss ible, except

when to do so would injure them or others.

STEP 10. We continued to tak e pers onal inventory and when we were wron g

pr omp tly adm itted i t .

STEP 11. We sought throu gh pr ayer an d m editation to im pr ove our con-

scious contact with God, a s we un der stood Him , pr aying only for k nowledge of

His will for u s an d th e power to carr y that ou t.

STEP 12. Having had a sp iritual awakening as the r esult of these step s, we

tried to car ry this m essage to alcoholics, an d to p ra ctice these pr inciples in all

our affairs.

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were helplessly in th e grip of alcohol, and how thr ough the encour agem ent of

friends and the help of God, they left it.

During the m eetings they learn how alcohol acts on the bod y and they

consider poss ible reas ons why people get into alcohol to star t with. Th ey

discus s per sona lity pr oblems, m ar ital difficulties caus ed by drink ing, and how

they can get pr oblems s tra ightened out.

They testify to their own victories, with th e help of God, over th e terr ible

hab it, an d they shar e exper iences in su ccessfully helping som eone else to get

off alcoh ol.

Alcoholics Anonymous is people helping people. And this is what the alco-

holic wanted in the firs t place. He star ted on the wrong path while in sear ch of

acceptance, love and app reciation.

Now he d iscovers tha t he find s it, by giving it to oth ers .

Refor m ed a lcoholics freq uen tly continu e atten din g for AA weekly m eetings

for years to com e. But whether th ey do or not, they know for a certainty that

they mus t continue their close connection with God, an d th eir efforts to help

others find God so they can recover also.Al-Anon an d Al-Ateen . Two other organizations have spr un g up to aid

alcoholics an d their fam ilies: Al-Anon ha s as its ob jective th e helpin g of wives

and hu sba nd s of alcoholics. Al-Ateen attem pts to help young people to und er-

stand the pr oblems of alcoholic parents an d to withstand the social and emo-

tional pressures they themselves may be encountering because of those prob-

lems.

Local br an ches of AA could help pu t you in con tact with Al-Anon or AI-

Ateen, so that you could work with them , or obtain h elp in star ting a br anch in

your a rea.

4 DK Plan . Recently, a new grou p ther apy appr oach ha s been star ted that

m an y will find to be very helpful: It is called th e 4 DK Plan (Four -Dimen siona lKey to the Caus e of Alcoholism ). It is a plan of ba sic alcohol edu cation.

The 4 DK Plan looks at both alcohol and manin relation to lifes four

dim ensions physical, mental, social, and sp iritual. It explains an d im ple-

m ents th e latest r esear ch on the caus es of alcoholism, th e effects of alcohol

consum ption, an d the latest r ehabili tat ion m ethods.

This plan cons ists pr imar ily of four grou p s essions, sh owing what a lcohol

can d o to each of these four p ar ts of a hu m an life. Following this, those in

attendance learn how to com bat d rinking habits thr ough each dimension.

Much of the m ystery is th us taken out of the how to conqu er alcohol pr ob-

lem . Visual aids, foru m s, an d gener al discussion is sup plemented with m otion

picture films. Th e two specialists who d eveloped the 4 DK Plan ar e E.H.J.Steed, executive director of the Intern ational Comm ission for the Prevention of

Alcoholism , an d L.A. Sens ema n, M.D., longtime cha irm an of the Rhod e Island

Advisory Committee on Alcoholism. The plan is usually made available through

local hosp itals a nd non -pr ofit organizations .

Four featu r es of the 4 DK Plan ren der it especially flexible and helpful: (1)

The plan is educational an d is valuab le to anyone concerned with alcoholism ,

whether or n ot he dr inks . (2) The plan can be instituted in any com m un ity,

us ing local resour ces. (3) The plan ap pear s to be as h elpful to alcoholics as th e

well-kn own Five-Day Plan to Stop Sm oking has been to s m okers . (4) The p lan



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is positive. It emphasizes good health and wholesome living.

Inform ation on already-sched uled comm un ity pr esentations of the 4 DK

Plan in your ar ea (or ha ving them come to your locality) ma y be obtained by

writing to the Inte rnationa l Com m ission for the Preven tion of Alcoholism ,

1250 1 Old Colum bia Pik e, S ilver Sp ring, Marylan d 2 0904.

In the tr eatm ent of alcoholic patients th ere ar e two stages to b e consid-eredone is the recovery from the acute alcoholism , and the other is th e han g-

over. The ess ential thing in the tr eatm ent of the form er is th e withd ra wal of

alcohol and en coura ging a good sleep.

Hang-over represents a sudden fall from the supposed pleasurable or at

least painless non-reality of acute alcohol intoxication into a new reality more

thr eatening than th at of the period pr eceding the bou t. The loss of self-esteem

cha ra cterizes th e over-all feelings of the alcoholic han g-over. Headach e is com -

m on, especially in those whose livers b ecome enlarged and tender du e to acute

inflamm ation of the liver. Thirs t is one of the m ain featur es, an d it is d ue to

per sp iration and the loss of water th rou gh excessive action of the kidneys.

Fatigue is expr essive of both th e em otional tens ion an d the exceptional de -

m and s d ur ing the episode of acute alcoholic intoxication.

The first thing which m ust b e done is the pr om pt an d total withd ra wal of

alcohol, as m ore alcohol in ever-incr easing doses is n ot a r emed y for th e ps y-

chological distu rb ances caus ed by its excessive us e, an d at tim es it is d ifficult

for alcoholic patients to accept this view. The patient will soon learn that his

m ental and p hysical pain can be relieved by mean s other th an b y the use of

alcohol. One of the imp ortan t things, which m us t be d one, is to allay the

patients fears , as m any tim es he worries abou t the irr epar able dam age don e to

the body over the long-continued use of alcohol.

Sleep is ess ential, and one of the best m eans of pr odu cing sleep is by the

use of pr olonged baths with the temp erature m aintained at a roun d 9 2 d egrees

to 94 d egrees. Quiet sur rou nd ings ar e absolutely essential. The diet is im por-tant, as it should n ot contain an ything of a stim ulating natu re, su ch as coffee,

spices, and condiments. Milk, eggs, fruits, and vegetables is the ideal diet, with

liber al use of oran ge juice and other fru it and vegetable juices to comb at loss of

fluids in th e bod y.

In m any instan ces the on ly way to pr operly contr ol the patient is to ha ve

him p laced in an ins titution where careful sup ervision can be car ried out. One

of the distressing things with those who have to deal with habitual alcoholics is

to see them str uggling with th ems elves, r em ors eful becaus e of their r epeated

falls, always declaring that they will never drink again, but invariably returning

to the use of alcohol.

The alcoholic patient ha s to sep ar ate him self from his old com pan ions, forthey frequently lead him to drink again. A complete change of life is essential,

and the best ch ange of all is a chan ge of hear t that com es from accepting Christ

as a p erson al Saviour. With His help th e alcoholic can obta in freedom which

can be gained in n o other way.The Problem of Alcohol, pp . 7-8.



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Chapt er Seven


A lcohol is a problem tha t CAN be overcom e. Others hav e done i t an d

y ou can do i t a l s o . Car e f u l ly r ead t he f o ll ow i ng i n f o rm a t i on and do

e x a c t ly w h a t i t s a y s . It c a n m e a n t h e b e g in n i n g o f a n e w w a y o f li fe f or

you .

FIRST , you m us t accept the fact that you d o ha ve a pr oblem. If you a re just

toying with th e whole idea an d h ave no r eal conviction that you m ust qui t, then

you ar e not likely to accomp lish m uch. You m ust feel strongly tha t you ha ve to

be d one w ith liquor, for your own s ak e and for th e sak e of your loved ones ,

wheth er th ey be n ear or far off. You r ealize tha t you d ar e not wait longer. Ther e

m ay not be an other oppor tun ity as the on e you n ow have before you. You h ave

to d o it now.

SECOND , you m ust accept the fact that you can not d o it by your self. Only

in the s trength of God can it be don e. And you can only receive that str ength

thr ough earn est pr ayer for h elp. Get on your k nees alone, all by your self, and

cry to God over the wh ole thing. Tell Him everything youve done wron g and as k

Him to forgive you. And m ean it. Tell Him you a re going to ded icate to Him th e

r est of your life. And m ean it. Tell Him you ar e willing to s acr ifice anything tha t

such a d edication r equires. And m ean i t . Then a sk Him for str ength to br eakfrom this terr ible ha bit. Ask Him to help you d o it by your self or pr ovide you

with friend s th at will help you do it.

THIRD, accept th e fact tha t you ar e not going to stay close to God un less

you read His Written Word every day, and every day send up your prayers for

forgiveness and for h elp. E ach d ay is a new one. And you m ust star t it with

God. Ther e are n o sh ort-cuts for th ey only lead to detour s. You m ust s tart every

da y with God and then walk with Him all day long.

FOURTH , accept the fact that continued pr ayer for help m us t be m ixed

with continued pr aise. Tha nk fulness is powerful. Believe tha t God will help

you. Believe it all day long, an d at n ight too, an d you will have help when you

need it. Believe th at He will for give you a nd accept you againeven when youmake mistakes. And believe that He loves you deeply, more deeply than you

have every thought pos sible. Keep think ing about th at fact. He has tried to h elp

you for year s b ut your s tubb orn ways h ave hind ered Him . Let Him give you th e

help now that He wants to give you. And thank Him continually for it. Thank

Him even when th ings look black a nd you s eem to h ave no on e on your side.



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FIFTH , you m us t m ak e som e cha nges in your life. You will ha ve to get m or e

exercise in the open air, an d m or e res t at night. You will have to pu t away the

things that tend to sep ar ate you from God. If television an d r ad io and the

m us ic and m agazines you are u sed to ar e pulling you away from God, then

thr ow them ou t. You m ay find tha t you h ave to m ake s om e new friends and

avoid som e old on es. Som e of the old ones would n ot care for your new way of

life. They would want your company in doing things you are no longer inter-ested in doing. The best s olution is to find new friend s. Go to chu rch regular ly.

Thats wher e you a re m ore likely to find better on es.

SIXTH, you may find it necessary to go on an init ial clean sing p rogram .

This will help expel the alcohol from your system more quickly. As with nico-

tine, the more quickly alcohol is out of your body, the more quickly the old

cravings will sub side. And su ch a pr ogra m will also help you over the initial

trem ors . As you kn ow, one mu st stop th ese dan gerous pr actices all at once;

they cann ot be p ut a way simp ly by gra du ally cutting down. This is where th e

following infor m ation m ay be h elpful.

In or der to carr y out this pr ogra m , you will need s om e one to help you. The

bath s m entioned below will help expel im pu rities from your body and helpovercome the alcohol habit. Continue them on in the years that follow. An

herbal tea sh ould be pr epared from the following powdered herbs : Equal par ts

of Skullcap, Catnip, an d Blue Vervain with no s weetening. Comb ine them , an d

place 2 tablespoons in a qu ar t of water that ha s been br ought to a boil and

then tur ned off. (Two quar ts sh ould last a day and a h alf, and can be kept

refrigerated un til used up .) An eight-ounce glass of tea sh ould b e tak en every

two hours, except when sleeping at night. This will relax you and help you

sleep.

First Day: Glass of water at 7 a.m . 8 oz., tea at 8. This is a relaxant tea and

will help you s leep. The idea h ere is the m ore sleep du ring withdr awal the less

pr oblem with the withd ra wal symp tom s. And it works. Sta y in bed an d r est.Sleep all you can . Every two hou rs anoth er glass of tea sh ould be b rou ght to

you. At 6 p .m. each evening, tak e a h ot and cold s hower.

Second Day: Sam e as th e first d ay, bu t that evening you can have a glass of

tom ato juice with a teaspoon of cayenne in it. (The stom ach is u sed to the bite

of alcohol an d th e red p epper helps tak e its place just now. Do not use black

pepper!)

Third Day: Sam e as pr eceding days, but now you can ad d a m eal in the

evening of sliced tom ato, or if you p r efer, stay with th e tom ato juice an d ca y-

enne.

Fourth Day: The us ual pa ttern, except as follows: In th e mor ning, a sm all

m eal of fres h fruit or soak ed d ried fru it. At noon a m edium -sized sa ladbutnot too m uch.

Fifth Day: Eat nor m ally. The p rogram is over.

The ab ove four-da y pr ogra m was d eveloped b y an her balist, now in h er

eighties, who ha s u sed it successfully with m any people. She h as seen it work



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repeatedly for both those coming off of alcohol and those trying to quit tobacco.

During the initial withdr awal and imm ediately thereafter, sleep is essen tial.

One m ethod of obtaining this is by the use of prolonged b aths (with the tem-

per atur e ma intained at ar oun d 9 2 to 94 F.). Quiet sur rou nd ings d ur ing this

time ar e abs olutely essen tial. The d iet sh ould n ot includ e coffee, spices and

condim ents; in fact, they sh ould be per m anen tly stopp ed. It is now kn own that

these on ly whet the ap petite for a retur n to a lcohol. Fru it, vegetables and gra ins

ar e needed along with water to r eplace body losses .

SEVENTH, eat a b alanced, n utr itious diet, as follows. Th e f o llow i ng par a -

gr aphs s u m m ar i z e s om e o f t he da t a g i ven ear li er in C hap t er Fi ve:

Magnesium , a tra ce miner al, is n ow known to greatly red uce the with-

dr awal sym ptom s called d elirium trem ens or the D.T.s. This was d iscovered

by Dr. Edm un d G. Flink , chairm an of the Depar tm ent of Medicine at th e West

Virginia Un ivers ity Medical School in 1 96 7. Th e severity of withd ra wal symp -

tom s is alm ost identical to the lack of m agnesium in the bod y.

Niacin (B3) is now considered by man y researchers to be the most imp or-

tan t single vitam in in over com ing the a lcohol hab it. Dr. Rus sell F. Sm ith ofMichigan s ays, B3 far su rp ass es other th erap eutic agents com m only us ed in

the tr eatm ent of alcoholics. A dos e of 12 gram s of niacin each d ay, an d on-

ward for s everal year s th ereafter, has b een su ggested. (Keep in m ind th at, when

you take niacine, your face will flush for a few minutes and get hot. That is

nor m al. Tak ing niacinam ide, instead of niacine elim inates th e flushing.)

There ar e other vitamins which ar e also considered im portant. Here ar e

several that a re u sed in m egavitam in thera py, in add ition to n iacin: Vitam in C,

Pyridoxine (B6), B1, B12, and Vitam in E . The entire B Complex works

together an d increas ed am oun ts of all the B vitamins s hou ld also be supp lied.

It shou ld be m entioned h ere that m assive B3 therapy depletes the am ount of

Vitamin C in the b ody, so m ore Vitam in C is n eeded when on a m egavitamin

program. (An average dose of 1000 mg. of Vitamin C daily is frequently used.)

Certain foods s hould n ot be us ednow or later. Stud ies h ave revealed that

poor food (such a s h ot dogs, sp aghetti, m eat balls, sweet rolls an d s oft dr inks)

and /or n ar cotics (such as coffee, tea, cigar ettes or har d d ru gs), and/or irr itating

foods (such as spices, condiments, an d the sauces, catsups and gravies rich in

them) all increase the craving for alcohol in the individual who is using it or

who is tr ying to stop u sing it.

A hypoglycem ic diet is very helpful in m an y ins tan ces. Th is is a d ie t tha t i s

high in frui t , mod erate in p rotein, qui te low in carboh ydrates (such as

pota toes , b read and cereal ), an d abs olutely no coffee or cigar ettes. For som e

reas on, p eople who r egular ly dr ink alcohol becom e overly sens itive to the

things that th e alcoholic beverage was der ived from . Dr. Ther on G. Ran dolphsu m m ar izes the p rob lem : Sens itivity to corn, m alt-wheat-rye, gra pe an d p otato

were encountered [in alcoholics] in that order of frequency. It is well known

that a lcoholic beverages consu m ed in this coun try are d erived from foods in

approximately the same order.

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But more impor tant than all else, is a pers onal surr ender to J esus Christ

and a str ict obedience, by faith in Him , to all Ten of the Com m and m ents. God

will help you. Write m e an d I will send you Bible stud ies tha t will help you in

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Chapter Eight

S t il l M ore F act s

Well, you ve m ade t he dec i s i on and y ou a r e s ay i ng goodby t o a m i s -

er ab le li fe . Her e a r e a f ew s t a t em en t s t o ponder a s y ou m ak e t he

changeover :

What a lcohol i s do ing to Am er ica:

In this countr y, 16% of all m ur der s an d a larger p rop ortion of other s eri-

ous crimes of violence ar e comm itted by pers ons un der the influence of alco-hol. Alcohol is also an imp ortan t caus e of social disor der and disease, which

lead s either directly or indirectly to delinqu ency, ill health, an d death . Coun ting

all the d eaths, in which a lcohol is a factor, gives a ra te of 10.2 per hu nd red

thous an d of the popu lation, which stan ds alcohol as a m ajor cause of death . .

From 2,000,000 to 2,400,000 pers ons are arr ested for dr unk enness each year

in this countr y . . As a p reventab le m easu re we need to build up a conscience

(against a lcohol) amon g all grou ps of the p opulation. Proper education in

school, chur ch, an d h om e to the real effect of alcohol would con stitute a potent

pr eventative m easu re. Young people. . can be m ade to look up on it as a da nger-

ous p ra ctice that m ay lead to tr agic add iction, with s erious m oral, social, and

ph ysical consequ ences . .

The United States Cr ime Comm ission once repor ted that 50 % of thepr ison inma tes in the United Sta tes were indu ced to com m it crimes b y alcohol-

ism. The 193 0 r eport of the United States Depar tment of J ustice asserted tha t

alcohol is r espon sible for 80% of those an tisocial tend encies necessitating the

m aintenan ce of jails and corr ective institutions. .

Alcoholism is four th in th e list of reas ons why people ar e sen t to hos pitals

for m ental diseases in th is countr y, and it is r apidly becom ing one of the m ajor

caus es of death in Am erica.J ourna l of the Am erican Medical Association.

The FBI reports: 59% of the arr ests across the nation were d ue to dr unk-

ennes s a nd liqu or law violations.

The Californ ia State Depar tm ent of Corr ections rep orts : It is costing the

State of Californ ia $26 m illion an nu ally to care for its 16,00 0 p rison ers, 8 0%

of whom comm itted th eir offenses un der the influence of alcohol.

A Californ ia State Assem blym an rep orts: 600, 00 0 a lcoholics ar e costing

the Sta te of Californ ia $30 0,00 0,00 0.00 a year. But the S tate received on ly

$20 ,893 ,492 in total taxes on alcoholic beverages for th e year en ding J un e 30,



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1955.

It costs the American people $20 for every $1 received from the liquor

business.Roger Babson, Econom ist and S tatist ician .

Dur ing 194 9, I pr esided over one of the civil dep ar tm ents of the Su per ior

Court of Los Angeles. Day after d ay, an end less str eam app eared before m e. In

75% of the cases tha t were br ought before m e, liquor h ad p layed an im por tantpar t in the d istur bance that had m ade n ecessar y an action for divorce.

J ud ge William McKay , Su pe rior Court, Los Angeles County .

In 80% of the cases coming into my court, liquor is involved in the crime.

In n ine tim es out of ten, alcohol is th e reas on for a p erson getting into tr ouble

the second time.J ud ge S tanley N. Barnes , Crim inal Court, Los Angeles

County.

Alcohol played a r ole in at least 9 0% o

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