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Page 4 THE FEDERATION JOURNAL April, 1954 DID YOU EVER PLAN TO BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC? No one who begins drinking ever in tends to be an alcoholic. All will dismiss from their minds the thought that their drinking may become uncontrolled, that they are weak-willed, etc. A drinker may not realize that at present his chance of becoming an alco holic is one in ten. Some people having psychotic tendencies are predisposed toward alcoholism. Every drinker is subject to the risk of alcoholism and medical science has not yet determined which drinkers will remain social or moderate drinkers. “A little drinking is all right, it is ex cessive drinking that is wrong,” is exactly what the beveraged alcohol trade would lead us to believe. They recognize only too well that the drunkard and alcoholic are the worst of all possible advertisements for their bus iness. In fact, if our towns and cities were equipped to rehabilitate all compulsive drinkers properly, the numerous clinics and rehabilitation centers might hurt bev eraged alcohol sales materially. It would require 1,203 hospital-type clinics of 58 beds each to treat the min imum estimated number of chronic al coholics, 930,000. Initial investment in plant and equip ment for these clinics would involve $600,000,000 and operating costs of $168 per patient adds $162,000,000, for a grand total expenditure of 762 million dollars! If this were done, then increasing pub lic awareness of the problem might al ter public opinion toward alcohol, a nar cotic, and generally classified as a drug of addiction. The World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations has stated its opin ion on the addiction producing potential ities of alcohol. The Expert Committee on Mental Health, Alcoholism Sub - committee, (WHO) reported during its first session, "... the subcommittee has been inter ested to note the definition of drug ad diction adopted by the Expert Committee on Drugs Liable to Produce Addiction in the report of its second session: “Di-ug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication, detrimental to the individual and to society, produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (nat ural or synthetic). Its characteristics in clude: (1) . an overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means; (2) . a tendency to increase the dose; (3) . a psychic (psychological) and sometimes a physical dependence on the effects of the drug. “At this stage, the subcommitee be lieves that a condition of addiction in The Tsungani Club V The Tsungani Club not only engages in social activities, but also is proud of the civic contributions that they make in their community annually. The club has given flutes to Fairview School, purchased TB bonds for several years, donated to the Red Cross, Corn- terms of that definition may be said to exist with the reservation that point (2) (a tendency to increase the dose) is not necessarily present. “It is uncertain whether or not the pharmacological concomitants of drug ad diction exist in the sense of a profound modification of physical dependence on the drug. “This is a matter urgently demanding research and the subcommittee recom mends that consideration should be giv en to the setting-up of a Subcommittee on Alcohol of the Expert Committee on Drugs Liable to Produce Addiction to consider this and other matters concern ing alcohol (as opposed to alcoholism) . . .” An Alcohol Advisory Panel to the Sec tion on Drugs Liable to Produce Addic tion of WHO has been established. The first session of the panel rhet in October, 1953 and their report will be official in January, 1954. The panel reviewed all the work per formed on alcohol and alcoholism, es pecially on the central nervous system, the metabolism of alcohol, the mechanism involved in the development of alcohol ism, alcohol and road traffic, and nutri tional aspects on the role of alcohol in the diet. From the Januarv-February, 1954 issue of The Foundation. munity Chest, Y.W.C.A., conducted rec reation for teen-agers and adults at Fair- view School and gives an annual scholar ship to the highest ranking student in the sixth grade at Fairview School. Members of the club, reading from left to right are: Mytrolene L. Graye, principal of Fair- view School, Beatrice B. Lomax, Galatia E. Lynch, Janie K. Wilhams, Mattie C. Robinson, Annie L. Jones, Lessie E. Flowe, club president, and Magnolia M. Hart. Not present when the picture was tak en were: Lavinia M. Greenwood and Nettie C. Moss. Y.W.C.A. Extends Welcome To State Federation Down through the history, the YWCA has been a home away from home, addi tionally in the atmosphere of understand ing. A room registry in the Y office helps to meet social aspect of housing needs. The building includes a club room, an as sembly room which may be used for lounging, games, dances, dinners, class es, parties, religious services, group meet ings, exhibits, movies and limited library accomodations. The kitchen and uten sils add to making various events pos sible. Also cloak rooms that are used for make-up, refresh-up and such as is need ed. The Y office is used by staff and volunteers. The Executive Director, Mrs. Rezelia W. Armstrong extends a most cordial welcome to the Federation in mak ing use of the YWCA facilities.
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