• the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?
• the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants?
• in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul?
• All in the Mind, the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism?
• Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W.?
• Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
• Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist?

Facts on topics related to Alcoholism

Addiction

• dopamine dysregulation syndrome (dopamine molecular model pictured) is characterized by self-control problems such as addiction to medication, gambling, or hypersexuality?

Drug addiction

• Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov's directorial debut, Igla, was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
• psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts, was herself addicted to cigarettes?
• Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
• American physician John Ziegler pioneered anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy athletes are putting themselves in the same category as drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
• in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?

Major depressive disorder

• pseudodementia is a condition in older people where a treatable psychiatric illness such as depression may mimic dementia?

Alcoholic beverage

• Christopher Smart's The Hop-Garden is a long 18th century georgic poem that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol?
• conservative State Senator Dan Morrish broke with the Louisiana Family Forum in 2009 by supporting a law which permits restaurants to levy cover charges for live entertainment and to sell alcohol?
• alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness?
• Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink?
• using cocaine while pregnant is thought to be less harmful to the baby than alcohol?
• although it was not particularly well-known in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages?
• the Amethyst Initiative, signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?
• the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
• the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico, dedicated to the god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage, attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala?
• while he was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Rip Egan once served alcohol to the opposing pitcher late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?

Alcoholics Anonymous

• baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
• Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W.?
• Women For Sobriety, a group founded in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, had over 200 chapters as of 1998?