From Isolation to Acceptance: A Handbook for Helping Alcoholics Compiled by William R. Boothe

From Isolation to Acceptance A Handbook for Helping Alcoholics Compiled by William R. Boothe Director, The Keeley Institute Greensboro, North Carolina This booklet is from 1956 and was published by RELIGION & HEALTH PRESS In Durham, North Carolina. Here you can read the Preface to learn more about this book: “Some authorities rate alcoholism the fourth health problem of the nation, others list it as the third health problem, behind only heart disease and cancer. Whether it is second, third, or fourth is not as important as recognizing that it affects all of us, directly or indirectly, and that it is a problem we cannot ignore. We believe in the joint-therapies approach, for alcoholism is a total personality problem, of such magnitude that the combined eftorts of all educational and rehabilitation facilities must be enlisted toward the same end. Education has reached the point that the public is accepting the premise that alcoholism is a disease and that there is hope and help for t