Show Many Are Says Director By LANCE GUDMUNDSEN Chronicle Staff Writer The executive director of the Utah State Board on Alcoholism said Thursday that are among five million Americans suffering from the definite disease of Clyde Gooderham told a journalism department press conference that alcoholism's main causes are ing mainly from individual's complex sociological arising mainly from an individual's of person turns to alcohol to escape from emotional Gooderham has both conscious and subconscious and uses liquor to avoid the director drinking becomes a fixed pattern of escape for inner and everyday alcoholic doesn't drink because he wants but because he has the director He pointed out that are rehabilitated but that one of the main blocks to treatment of the one out of every 14 Utah drinkers who are suffering from the disease the refusal of the individual to admit his on the part of the alcoholic is absolutely necessary for successful he Gooderham reported that alcoholism in Utah is on the and r cited educational programs in the schools and through mass media as contributing He cited the Utah School on Alcoholism held annually at the University as a helpful program in alcoholism through proud of the fact that Utah ranks among the states in the rate of he Gooderham also cited a number of statistics on One out of five or six alcoholics are California and Nevada lead the nation in the percentage of on the consume gallons of alcoholic drinks including beer per individual per This amounts to gallons of absolute Every alcoholic rehabilitated in Utah eliminates 20 arrests by liquor permits were sold in the state last compared to in All Utah secondary schools have alcoholism education as part of their health i |