Show Big Killer The disease of alcoholism has been called the most neglected public health problem facing the nation It is a killer illness that is attained in most cases through progression over a period of IT IS neglected because of Most victims fight against admitting they are Non-sufferers often do not recognize identifying signs of the Too many citizens do not know that the alcoholic can be helped if aid is asked soon SIGNS In an effort to help victims or their family or employers determine if a drinking problem exists this paper is publishing a series of articles of which is THE MOST recent discussion pinpointed such warnings during the pre-alcoholism stage as sneaking drinking before gulping and avoidance of talk about drinking SOLITARY drinking is a potent indicator and occurs when drinking no longer is a social function for an This does not cover the abuser of alcohol who frequents bars It focuses on the person who goes into seclusion flophouse or his own where he can remain undisturbed in a state of intoxication for days or sometimes weeks to drink is the first drastic and dramatic example of the isolation It will be repeated many times with rapidly increasing SESSIONS FAIL The lonely sessions fait always to provide the comfort and the drinker thought he would He comes back to friends and co-workers embarrassed and Others now have guessed his secret and the solitary binge has settled no HE HAD expected to escape into a world of euphoria where life's problems cannot Each attempt at finding such is futile and painfully he continues to go back in search of that his hopes always new and This is but another manifestation of the tightening grip which alcohol is exerting upon LONG WAY TO GO But to the drinker in the stage he has a long way to go in the horrors of solitary As the song seen nothing By the acute stage this kind of boozing is IN THE drinker's the occasional blackout he used to shudder over now descends to haunt They may happen three times in every ten drinking Concern mounts in the man because lost days and weeks create all sorts of problems in the person's business and domestic In fishing for clues to assure him that he did complete a task he has no recollection of even he always betrays his astounding His social and family days may be He is tabbed as Realization of this can send him to only one situation lonely living grave in THE PATTERN of progression toward acute and chronic alcoholism usually includes the beginning of daytime For a great many weeks and the heavy drinker refrains from starling before COMMON BOAST He is determined to wait until he is through with his work usually so that he can eagerly at his at a time when there will be no interference from the demands of conducting the details of his Drinking truly is a welcome release from the cares of a troubled IT IS the common boast of practically every alcoholic that drinking if interfered with his He does shrug off the inefficiencies resulting from brutal They also may have made him sometimes but he always reported MORNING JOLT Once the individual is motivated toward the morning to start the he is slipping from into the acute which will come under study in the next article of this THERE ARE no time standards to help in identification of a drinking problem in the pre-alcoholism It may be only five or six months or that many Progression depends on the mental physical stamina and spiritual resources of the individual as well as the degrees of social responsibility which he has previously |