It is gratifying that the American Medical Association is dedicating this issue ofThe Journalto
focus on the illness of alcoholism and related problems, since these affect millions of …

A step toward the eventual solution of one of the nation's most perplexing public health
problems, alcoholism, was taken in Seattle at the clinical meeting of the American Medical …

In recent years there has been an increasing awareness by physicians, social scientists, and
laymen that alcoholism is a medical problem and that it is a vast one. Several million …

To establish a more precise use of the termalcoholism, a 23-member multidisciplinary
committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American …

ALCOHOLISM affects an estimated 10 million Americans. 1 It plays a role in 10% of all
deaths in the United States and is the cause of inestimable human anguish.~ Prevalence …

medicine," who knows syphilis knows medicine." Alcoholism has now replaced syphilis in
that respect. Not many of us still know syphilis, but some of us still hang on to internal …

SINCEthe earliest days of Boston's existence the problem of alcoholism has caused great
con-cern to those charged with the care and super-vision of persons who, temporarily or for …

WH ETH ER a physician works with a military or with a civilian population, he is frequently
confronted by the problem of alcoholism. No matter where a doctor goes someone is certain …

Excerpt The treatment of alcoholism has not improved in any important way in 25 years, and
alcoholism is becoming more prevalent, not less. The systematic and long-term collection of …

The program was planned to cover all aspects of the alcohol problem, beginning with
physiologic and chemical considerations and the clinical as-pects, to which the first day was …