The Ideology of a Therapeutic Social Movement: Alcoholics Anonymous,
Blumberg
L, Journal of
Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 38 (11), 2122-2143, 1977
“Getting
drunk isn't regarded as a crime in Minnesota. It Is a disease, like
heart trouble or diabetes. Public officials, businessmen, attorneys,
plumbers and clergymen have admitted they are recovered alcoholics
and encouraged others with a problem to ask for help. " So wrote
Richard McFarland in a United Press International dispatch from St.
Paul, Minnesota's alcoholism treatment program and quotes Minnesota's
Governor to the effect that: “Drunkenness is not a crime in this
state. A few years ago public drunkenness was a crime and people were
put in jail for a few days. NOW, we recognize alcoholism as a disease
and it's a credit to the community that it is people-oriented and
does something to solve the problem."”
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