November 1996
Breakthrough
Reprinted from the September 1969 Grapevine
Twenty years ago, the hospitals in our town were not equipped with special wards for alcoholics. When an alcoholic needed treatment, he was placed in the psycho ward with the patients who had serious mental disturbances. There were the usual safeguards: bars on the windows; a lock on the door; no cigarettes, matches, or shoelaces in the patient's possession.
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