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November 1963

Different Kinds of Alcoholism

New ideas may explain why some who come to AA have trouble

ALTHOUGH the alcoholic "numbers game" has proved of little value in tracking down the rumored rise of alcoholism in the U.S.A., interesting new light is thrown on the subject by modern scientific speculation about different species of alcoholism. This could revise a lot of present-day thinking in the field of alcoholism, and it could explain one of the reasons why such a small portion of the world's alcoholism sufferers have shown any progress toward recovery.

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