Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for!… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
