Videos About Alcoholism

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“Problem Drinkers” is a 1950s era, black and white movie that reviews the problem of alcoholism and examines possible solutions to this enduring social ill, including Alcoholics Anonymous. The film opens with the bartender pouring alcohol into a glass next to a bucket of ice. Crowded bar scene 1:00. A drunk woman cries 1:12. Inebriated people are shown 1:20. Police officer comes across a drunk laying in the street 1:31. Man winds up in the drunk tank 2:30. Policeman calls the man’s wife 2:50. Man appears before the judge 3:14. Father Theobald Matthew, an Irish priest, apostle of temperance converted 700,000 people to sobriety 3:47. National women’s Christian Temperance Union, administration office 4:04. Woman talks about prohibition in certain counties 4:26. Campaigns promoting moderation and drink flood magazines and newspapers 4:42. Man speaks to a convention of tavern owners to serve liquor responsibly 5:10. Academia searches for a solution to alcoholism. Chemistry lab is shown at Yale’s School of Alcohol Studies 5:37. Howard Wilcox Haggard (July 19, 1891 – April 22, 1959) was an American physician, physiologist and writer 5:44. E. M. Jellinek, was a biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoholism researcher, fluent in nine languages and able to communicate in four others, 5:50. Lab rats are tested 6:08. Yale Plan Clinic 6:22. An alcoholic is interviewed at the clinic 6:35. He is then given a physical 6:51. The man sees a psychologist 7:00. Finally, interviews with the family try and determine what is wrong at home 7:18. Community leaders come to a seminar to learn about alcoholism 7:39. New York headquarters of Alcoholics Anonymous 8:45. The 12 steps are shown 9:00. Two men discuss the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous 9:33. Man receives his detox treatment in the hospital 10:33. A man stands and speaks at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting 11:00. A woman speaks at the meeting 11:30. People pray at the end of the AA meeting 12:20. The man paces in his room nervously wanting a drink. Instead he calls an AA member for help 13:10. The AA member leaves his house to come help the man 13:35. The man sits nervously waiting 13:55. The man prepares to leave the house to get a drink 14:20. Instead the man sits and smokes 14:30. The man arrives to help the alcoholic 15:21. Man sits at breakfast with his wife 15:45. Man apologizes to the police officer 15:55. Man turns down a drink at a house party 16:40. Research papers on alcoholism are shown 17:10. Marty Mann (October 15, 1904 – July 22, 1980) was an early female member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and author of the chapter “Women Suffer Too” in the second through fourth editions of the Big Book of AA. In part because of her life’s work, alcoholism became seen as less a moral issue and more a health issue 17:17. Our original alcoholic has become sober and is helping other alcoholics on your way to recovery 18:27.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual aid fellowship with the stated purpose of enabling its members to “stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.” AA is nonprofessional, self-supporting, and apolitical. Its only membership requirement is a desire to stop drinking. The AA program of recovery is set forth in the Twelve Steps.

AA was founded in 1935 in Akron, Ohio when one alcoholic, Bill Wilson, talked to another alcoholic, Bob Smith, about the nature of alcoholism and a possible solution. With the help of other early members, the book “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism” was written in 1939. Its title became the name of the organization and is now usually referred to as “The Big Book”. AA’s initial Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help the fellowship be stable and unified while disengaged from “outside issues” and influences.

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