Word: problems
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gray area," says one problem drinker experimenting with managed moderation. Right. Alcoholism loves gray areas. It thrives in the ambiguous zones...
...thing being addressed. Amazingly, the director of the famous Smithers Addiction Treatment and Research Center in New York City expressed support for managed moderation. Smithers eased him out not long ago. An outfit called Addiction Alternatives, based on Los Angeles, has been attracting drinkers who hope that their problem can be thus disciplined...
...argument is that many problem drinkers can be helped with this approach - people who think the total abstinence route taken by Alcoholics Anonymous is (in the cagey phrase) "not for them...
...certain the approach is not only futile for problem drinkers but also dangerous. Inside the alcoholic's brain two characters are arguing. One of them blusters and pettifogs and rationalizes, in the voice of denial: "I don't really have a problem... I can stop any time I want to... I only drink because (fill in the blank...
...Rice also emphasized the need to work with America's allies, reflecting a real concern that Clinton-era unilateralism has alienated Washington's European NATO partners and left the Gulf War alliance in tatters. Again, a solid diagnosis of the problem, although the party that put Jesse Helms in charge of foreign policy on Capitol Hill may be ill-placed to excoriate unilateralism...