Committee for Education on Alcoholism Historic Event, Says Dwight Anderson

Those who read this issue of The Grapevine are privileged to be present at what may very well prove to be an historic event. The birth of the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, first publicly announced in this issue, means far more than the mere name would imply. It is the beginning of a new public health movement. It is the first step toward getting the alcoholic out of the jail and into the hospital; toward making it possible for the medical man and the psychiatrist, the social worker and the lay therapist, to pool their skills with Alcoholics Anonymous in modifying the ravages of an illness to which society has been indifferent almost until this very moment.