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;_ ` �a ^ nI�i 1 �041�KIM+r 1% rid it also receives support from tax FoliowupIsdone through the lcoal anonymity In public, that is in the ``t" a ?�,� serve anonymity. "Through sharing our problems, our common and adequately trained to be counselors 1 n alcoholic ands administered by the stale and and from AA groups 1n the four counties, PI or press, on television or when speaking publicly. '&,'� experiences and our anger and rehabilitation programs-" Aunty governments onlributions. A maximum of Z2 tori Walker added that current "But" a local AA member said "we to tell ;' a r �•, frustration," one member said, "we learn we are not alone. And as our Another question that gets a good deal of debate arr.onq aicchcL'cs nen and three women can receive reatment at the facility and there is therapy used in alcoholic rehabllitation stresses will power, are ehcmtraged people when we meet on a personal basis b ,. t 'y „`-a attitude begins to change, we find themscives and counselors Is t staff of seven. Most of the self responsibility and self love. that ive are alcoholics so others will 6 t �. Y&�'t�'y that we can still love the alcoholic In whether an alcoholic can recover drirkiag esidents are able to pay nothing for "Alcoholism is their problem and know where to seek help." +'T +..,,r„•y - our lives but lead our own lives and be happy and free from and go back to socially. "Noway," Piper said. Others point heir treatment. they have got to solve It. We can only A group of interested persons In . guilt." local "Alco -Hope Is for the four coup- serve as a guide." Vero Beach are working quietly on the of a type of y 1 Another An -Anon member an. pounced proudly al a recent to examples of atcohlics who have been treated and who now are les, but preference goes Id County AA Is accepted as the most suc- for possibility {letting treatment facility established in r %''e 9 meeting, "I am not appendage of able to drink socially. "But were residents from Indian River tecause dt the local support," Pipet eessful program worldwide helping alcoholics stay sober. Indian Florida that Is not yet here. "There S� ' ' � t f:;'x+ the alcoholic." A for the these people really alcoholics?" AA members ask. laid. "We keep one bed open for an RiverCounty hasllchapters. are three kinds o{ "� similar program children of alcoholics, Although many still attach a ndianRiver County resident incase here is order or an Members refer to It as a "spititual" program and not a facilities for the treatment of alcoholism," said one member of & �4 called Alateen, has helped millions of stigma to alcoholism, great strdes a court imergeney.' religious" program, although many the group who asked that his name "There , ^e a .S * Young people Throughout the country cope with lite with an have been made in recent years to remove it and to have alcoholism To be admitted to Alco•Hope, a people find it difficult to distinguish be withheld. is the publicly s � disease Berson must be sober, and have between the two. One close local supported facility, the private alcoholic parent, but the nearest accepted as a rather than a Leen sober for about five days, and observer said flatly that AA quib- profit-making facility and the ' ': - such groups to this area are in South moral or spiritual weakness. "The m or she must be oft any "mood bles with semantics. "It's a voluntary, non-profit, non-public f " Brevard County and Port Sl. Lucie. best way to make more silering"medications. "Often are cross ad- religious program treating alcoholism as a moral problem. facility supported solely by con- tributions from the outside. Thegroup "I'd love to see a local Alateen here," Miss Barker said. progress iri this Is throuzh the educational system," Piper said. alcoholics Meted," Piper said. "They are not Let's call it what It is." He did not "AA third type has the highest success ^''• �'� Now we refer young people to the out•of-tovm groups." "And I don't mean a one-shot deal In a bioto_,y class or a school m hard drat s, but they're addicted hesitate to add, however, that [etc. • "Tax supported facilities are J. Lynn Piper firs. walker recalled that at- seminar. I think we need a pzo_ram to mild tranquilizers." Treatment at Alco -Hope follows works." The steps of AA Include "Ad- always strapped for money and tempts were made several times in from kindergarten through the I%h the basic steps of Alcoholics mitting we are powerless over cannot always hire the best people least three persons as well as the the past to get an Alateen group grade to made youngsters aware of Anonymous, plus reality therapy alcohol and that our lives have and, in addition, they are often alcoholic. Usually these people who started here, but they failed, "I alcoholism." "There and Rational Emotive Therapy. become unmanageable... Believing bogged down will: restrictions. are affected are family members think there was not enough fie added, used to be an Piper put these Into laymen's that a Power greater than ourselves Private facilities tend to have a lot and the disease can be as leadership," she said. old theory that you had to hit bottom terms. could restore us to sanity -Making a of repeaters. t think this may be devastating to them as it is to the Counselors i n alcoholic before you enuld begin to rnake your "Our job is to change their decision to turn our will and our because they are too wrapped up in drinker. rehabilitation programs are in some way back up. But we no tomer thinking and their attitude toward lives over to the care of God as we making a profit." For this reason, Ai -Anon family eases recovered alcoholics, and this believe this. If the kids are at least life in general. Everybody has understand Him.' among others. The nearest non-profit, non-public groups were formed a number of Is an area of controversy within the aware of the problems of problems, but an alcoholic turns to AA members say that even an benefit from the steps of facilities that he referred to are in Minneapolis, Pennsylvania and New years ago to help the families of alcoholics learn to cope with their field of rehabilitation. "For some counselors, their only alcoholism, there is a better chance that they will seek help early if they drinking for his problems. We try to them to face their problems atheist can the program. "'God, as we tin- York. lives, regardless of whether or not qualification is that they are develop a problem. "And gel without alcohol. And we are derstand him; " one said, "can "There Is a need for one in the the alcoholic is seeking treatment, recovered alcoholics," Bill Can- it's a lot easier to help relatively suecesstttL One outot tour mean whatever the alcoholic wants, Southeast and we are interested in There are three An -Anon family Uebary, former counselor with "I someone it he seek help early than it stays sober for a year after from as ashtray to the AA group." working on seeing it come to pass." groups operating In Indian River. CARP., said. would like to see he hit bottom." scene leaving." Members of AA observe It Is said that alcoholism affects at County. Their members also ob• more counselors who are qualified . tom,,,._- -�..• MOST ALCOHOLICS ARE ' V SKID ROW uuMs ALCOHOL IS A STIMULANT. It's about as good a stimulant as ether. Alcohol acts as a depressant on the central nervous system. `Only 3% to 596 are. Most alcoholic people {about / 1�, 70%} are married, em- regular people All kinds of people: "1 DRIVE BETTER AFTER A FEW DRINKS."ployed, In most states, the legal definition of "driving under the Influence" is a blood alcohol level of 0.10%. But scientific tests have proved that even professional drivers' abilities diminish sharply at levels as low as 0.03% to 0.05% ... just a few drinks. Not only that, but Judgment is affected, too. So people think they're driving better than ever while they're really driving worse. F Y 7 8 t + •^' -q„ 1t. + t� l PAGE PAr.r