Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of the bottle is one of the business world's trickiest problems. Every year U.S. industry loses more than $1 billion from the absenteeism, accidents and substandard work of 2,000,000 problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told...
...others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...
Help from A.A. Du Font's model assault on the bottle problem was detailed by its assistant medical director, Dr. C. Anthony D'Alonzo, in The Drinking Problem (Gulf Publishing; $2.95). The company first looks for certain giveaway signs: "Frequent absenteeism (characteristically on Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists...
...firing is rarely necessary. Du Pont has treated 900 problem drinkers under its program. The cure rate: 66%. The cost: less than $100 per rehabilitation...
...home, he goes to extremes to seek it. As Bergler told one homosexual patient, who was rarely spanked as a child: "You had to work hard to get your beatings at home. The generations brought up in the era of 'progressive education' faced the same problem...