Sponsor Your Doctor

ALL OF US interested in alcoholism and the problems of alcohol have been puzzled, frustrated, and at times angered by the lack of understanding or even of interest on the part of the helping professions, especially medicine. A few pioneers in medicine--Silkworth, Tiebout, Kennedy, Gehrmann, Seixas, Block, Gitlow, among others in the United States--have understood and done much to soften the prejudice that has been a major handicap to alcoholics' recovery.