Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1950 — Page 11

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BR sherry or a martini before din-

. be a chronic alcoholic. Chronic |

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"mess. Unconsciously, the addict |

is about one chance in two that

ers, and about 750 thousand

“do not believe that I have sent |

dR Tay miss it. Nevertheless,

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unce or Two of Liquor May Help,

But Too Much Is Suicide, Doctor Declares

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Medical Authority Tells How to Classify

Yourself in Scale

EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Steincrohn in which he says selves, unco

of Alcohol Users

This is the last of a eries of articles by | too many of us are killing our- |

He cites these subtle forms of suicide, tells how to avoid them.

These articles are condensations from the book,

Killing Yourself,” just

CHAPTER SIX : By PETER J. STEINCROHN IF YOU ARE an adult, there |

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liquor touches your lips. | It has been estimated that there are about 50 million social drinkers in this country, about 3 million excessive drink-

persons who- suffer from chron--+ ic alcoholism. : Moderate or social drinking

ficial. However, if you think that alcohol is a cure-all for a cold, or shock, or snake bite, you | might as well take milk: It will do you mere good. For years I have been advising most of my patients over 40 to take an ounce or two of i liquor daily, In all that time I :

one person along the rocky road to chronic alcoholism.

» “ A DAILY ounce or two pro- | motes sociability, makes for good companionship, increases the appetite and the enjoyment | of food; promotes good sleep, and acts like a sharp knife to | cut the thick rope of tension

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which ties a man fo his work. |

I have had hundreds of testimonials. from patients after I have convinced them of the wisdom ‘of takifig ‘a glass of

ner, Life from six o'clock on has become more enjoyable, They tell me that people who do not take a drink before dinner do not know what it is to really live. ; observing:-such-persons-— for almost twenty years, I have yet to find one alcoholic among them. In other words, if you have not begun to drink alco- | hol ‘ before forty, the chances | are you will never turn out to

alcoholics usually become addicted in early manhood or womanhood—even during adolescence.

. - ” » - WHAT IS the definition of a chronic alcoholic? He is one | who “drinks so much and so

ligations, hs cannot do full jus- | tice to his job, and he suffers | in health, | We are beginning as a society | to grow up in our attitude to- | ward these unfortunates. Now | we know that these people need | all the help they can get. They | are sick. They have a sense of insecur’'y, a feeling of being lost, an overwhelming depression and unhappin- .s, which makes them reach automatically for the bottle. We must recognize that al- i coholism is an urge to destruc- | tion. It is an urge to forgetful- {

pours liquor down his throat | in order to destroy his body. His body, as far as he is concerned, is unimportant when | weighed against his emotional conflicts; against hi: unwill- | ingness and inability to adjust himself to his surroundings;

against his ability to face reali- |

ties.

drinker, or a chr lcohlic Probably you know just where you fit in. If you are a social drinker, you take it or leave it. If your | wife has forgotten to mix the | pre-dinner martini, you may | even forget to remind her about ft. Or; having become used to Your nightly ounce or two, you

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will never go higher than this | quota—except on a week-end or | Special party when you may - +-have three of four highballs. In i other words, liquor is something i You enjoy, but which. you can |

live without. : If you are an excessive drinker, you are the fellow who takes

81x or seven cocktails at a party | 4wo-or-three-times-a-weei; per= + haps three of four beers a day;

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| Whisky at night after work, | “T"PErhaps you 4186 Have a martini |

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drinks to one, than to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps to sobriety after you have fallen deep into the class of chronic alcoholic.

become a _nioderate one. It. is | easier to cut down from eight |

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We have heard of some apparently hopeless cancers being |

| disease living comfortably for |

| years. However until recently, |

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I have seen chronic alcoholics |

who had much to live for, yet |

did everything to slowly kill |

| themselves and their families. i Nothing in medicine is more

| disheartening to see than the |

| dividing line between: LXCLISIVE- wr OF ‘Womah who i8 oveércome drinking and chronic alcoholism | | is very thin. : ce

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i chronic suicide, | be discovering, I hope, satisfac-

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As HEREIN urge ty destroy himself. Only when he

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