ALCOHOLISM the road to recovery - D Paul Graunke - December 1976

D Paul Graunke

On May 8, 1976, 52 prominent people met in Washington, D.C., to announce to the press and the world: "We are recovering alcoholics." Dubbed "Operation Understanding," the media event was sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism to dispel the myth that alcoholism doesn't happen to "nice" people and to reduce the moral stigma that cripples efforts to successfully treat the disease. "Operation Understanding" also underscored the fact that people can recover from alcoholism and that there are resources and agencies that can help alcoholics resume – or enjoy for the first time – normal, happy, successful lives without alcohol. To find out what resources exist on a local level to help the alcoholic achieve sobriety, we sent a contributing editor into the community of Pasadena, California. Here is his report. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library