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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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