I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.
