PO Box 1980

Let's set the record straight. In response to the December 1990 letter from T. R. of Gordes, France, who says, "Then (1961) no hospitals admitted alcoholics, and treatment centers were unknown," I was admitted as an alcoholic to Towns Hospital in New York City in the late 1940s, where I was given the "experimental" drug Antabuse. Further, I was an alcoholic patient at Rosary Hall in St.Vincent's Charity Hospital in Cleveland in 1955 and went on to be the first alcoholic nurse hired by Sister Ignatia and to work there for three and a half years.