ANONYMOUS 20,000
IX o’clock rolls round and the bells _ begin to ring; men~take their last long gulp and head for home. Between twenty and sixty thousand New Zealand alcoholics have just finished enjoying their disease for a while. These figures were given by Dr. S. J. Min-
ogue, of Australia, in a recent radio interview scheduled for national broadcast this month, when he stated that between one and three per cent of most nations’ populations were alcoholics. A leading authority on _ the subject in his own country, Dr. Min-
ogue referred to alcoholism as a disease and stressed the necessity of this attitude to the problem in the interview he gave to the NZBS. He also pointed out that since alcoholism is a disease it should be possible to treat it medically. Although science had not yet evolved a mediéal cure for the disease he felt fairly sure-that one would be discovered
once the true cause of alcoholism was established. In the meantime, the organisation Alcoholics Anonymous offered the best methods of combating this disease. This interview, The Problem of the AIcoholic, will be first heard from 4YA at 7.15 p.m. on Monday, March 3.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 16
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