Show Some Can Gan Drink brink But Others Cant Can't 1 By ALISON AUSON GODDARD There are some women who can drink and some who cant According to her own description description description des des- Mercedes McCambridge McCambridge McCambridge bridge known for her Oscar winning performances in films and on television is one who cant can't TillS THIS YEAR she's serving as honorary chairman of the National Council on Alcoholism Alcohol Alcohol- ism and traveling throughout through through- out the country to talk about her own c. c experiences with this disease o of alcoholism Alcohol Miss McCambridge points out is a nice social medicine that everyone uses adding that a woman in our time drinks socially because its it's expected of her A LOT of people she notes can go along long drinking this way with no particular problems problems problems lems but most alcoholics drift gradually into the disease I III have yet to meet an alcoholic she declares who wanted to be an alcoholic Speaking from p s Miss ss j l personal ex says says- Had anyone anyone ge that alcoholism told m me e was a that t there here might might be L disease cr som thing in my b blood food Chem chemist e. e sensitive to this chemical chemical i T i might have known I shouldn't drink at allBUT allBUT all BUT I didn't know I T k k t insisting something wS was wr Wrong with me because because-al because although though I 1 i never drank as much J as m mOst of my friends drinking alwayS 1 affected me badly Yet wh when ever she sought help she he f I recalls reo re- calls she was ab Y told toM she was a tense person m in a tense profession and take herself so seriously l The cause of alcohols alcohols' alcoholism tn j Mercedes McCa McCambridge pOints point 1 out are var rd Ed d and com comply complex lez Sometimes a a series of cr rises crises can occur In in a womans woman's 1 1 life e and because alcohol seems seem to relieve her anxiety A she will slip into this disco 1 unwittingly and unwillingly gly f j 1 SHE COULD be a Y 1 woman she points 9 out or orone r one over 40 who may be having an identity crisis crisis- b be I cause her children no longer need her Describing the upheavals in her own life Miss McCambridge Me- Me Cambridge says My i y mar roar marriage broke up my house burned down I broke m my y leg on stage and and my o only y living son was critically 13 I had become emotion ally bankrupt I kept writ wm i I ing checks on an emotional account that no longer lead had j I funds in it any it I I HER PROBLEMS she says I 1 finally flared up as an ace attack of bronchitis that required re reo her to be hospi hospitalized hospitalised This time however Miss MM Mei i Cambridge encountered a doctor doc doe I tor who diagnosed her l i lem as alcoholism 1 He told me the reason I I was sick was because 1 I was drinking too much an and I because I was addicted to the drug of alcohol which whirl my body could not tolerate It was at that point sn su years ago she declares tb she stopped drinking entire entirely MERCEDES McCambridge stresses that alcohol is tIe lit third largest killer in he tU country following heart disease da- da ease and cancer She te teher tells her audiences If ulf you thu you might have a draft I problem detect it early DONT DON'T KILL someone t a highway bec because S ot of t 1 Dont Don't let it destroy your marriage mar marriage or cause your to lose their respect for forja yrs And dont don't fall out of love IDT with because youre you're oure physically ill Information on the early warning signals of alcoholism i imay may be obtained by writing the National Council on Alcoholism Alcoholism Al AI 2 Park Ave Net Nei York N N. Y 1016 j |