Joe M. giving his 'Chalk Talk'

Good evening and I hope that this does not take too long.

I would begin by saying that it was my privilege, just about 20 years ago, to have met a man who, in my opinion, knew as much or more

than any other given individual in this field of alcoholism. His name was Walter Green. He was a medical doctor and a recovered alcoholic.

The little Doc, as he was very fondly called by everyone who knew him,

had lost everything through his own drinking,

beginning with his license to practice medicine. He lost that. And from there he went down and he wound up on Michigan Ave. in Detroit, MI, plumbing Nichols for Drake. And I can hear him say now that very often, even though the people didn't recognize him, he put his hand now to former patients that he had treated when he was a young intern at Detroit Receiving Hospital, not very far from there.

Well, the little doc had a beautiful expression. He says you don't get a A, it gets you while it got him and he got well. And he went back to the top of his profession and he became the medical head of the hospital in Brighton, MI.

And he had developed a series of talks on alcoholism which he gave to his patients there. Now, Doctor Greene dedicated his entire life from that, from his own recovery on. He dedicated his entire life only to alcoholic men and women, and he treated approximately 6000 of them before he himself died of cancer some years ago.

I would submit for your consideration that this little man knew what he was talking about.

He had the experiential knowledge of having been there himself and he had the the knowledge mixed with a lot of love of his patients that he had collected over the years.

He used to say this.

A lie can be wiped out with truth. Ultimately, you can explode a lie or a myth or a fallacy with truth. One thing is much more dangerous than any lie ever could be, and that's the half truth. And there's no field on earth in which there are more half truths than this one of alcoholism. So he used to say what can be known should be known, because if we don't work with solid truth and solid knowledge, death is the result.

Alcoholism is a terminal illness. If an alcoholic does not stop drinking, the drinking will ultimately stop him. So Doc used to say in that magnificent simplicity of his, it's rather nice to know what you're sick with so you know what it is you're getting well from. And then he used to try to explain alcoholism, at least the fact that we do know about it, what it is and what it does based on a knowledge of alcohol, what it is and what it does.

Alcoholism is one of the oldest illnesses known to mankind. It's been around a long, long time. It's mentioned in scripture, mentioned a lot of other ancient writing.

It is, in my opinion, the most complex. We don't even know what causes it, and I can hear Doc saying this as if he just said it 5 minutes ago. The causes and cures for cancer will be long forgotten even before we come to a knowledge of the causes of alcoholism. We do know the causes of drinking. You can find out why people start drinking,

but those things are not the causes of compulsive drinking.

Here's where many professionals make a mistake. They conclude that what causes drinking is causative of alcoholism or compulsive drinking is so at all. It's the most complete illness known. It affects body, mind, emotion and soul. In other words, when you catch this disease, you get sick all over,

and it's the one about which we know the least.

I heard a man as recently as last night say that in the beginning of his own recovery, he figured he knew everything about alcoholism. And now, after quite a few years of recovery, 20 some, he said, I think I'm beginning to learn a few things about it. And so there's a very baffling thing. But to get back to basics,

the facts about alcoholism. What can be known should be known

because the results of 1/2 truth are always tragic.

One of the first myths that Doc used to try to explode is a popular belief that practically everybody holds on to.

If we can send the alcoholic to some professional

who can tell him why he drinks, he won't have a drinking problem. I would like to bet that many of you in this room,

when your problem was discovered and when it was acknowledged that there was some trouble with drinking here, or sent to psychiatrists and spent a lot of money and a lot of hours trying to find out why you drank. And if a man or woman is smart enough, they can get to the basic reasons of why you started to drink. But that doesn't dissipate the problem.

Has many of you in this room ever gone to a dentist and said, quick, doctor, tell me why my tooth hurts? And after he explains why all the INS and outs of molecular structure of cells and saliva and food and decay and all of that sort of thing, supposing he explains exactly why you have a two face. Have any of you ever said thank you, doctor and walked out?

A knowledge of causes does not dissipate the problem. It doesn't dissipate the problem at all.

Opera therapy does. You may know why you have appendicitis, but that's not going to take care of it. Surgery will

You may know why you broke your leg. You weren't careful skiing, but a knowledge of why you broke your leg is not going to heal it. Proper therapy is the answer to any problem. However, docs does just to clear the air. There are reasons why people drink alcohol, but he said there are reasons why people drink everything. So let's go into the things we drink and why we drink them. The very first thing

crosses human lips is water. Why do we drink it? We have to, we have to, but I, I think they say you can only go so many days without water and you'll die. Most of the human body is composed of water. It has to be replenished. And so, so basically water flakes first we drink it because it is necessary that we drink it. The next thing we are given is milk,

and milk is drunk because we have to drink it. It is so essential to life for some animal species, the human animal included. This is what biologists call us.

They call us milk drinkers. The technical name is mammal. That's from the Latin word Mama, which means breasts, the source of milk. Mammals are milk drinkers, and we drink milk, milk for the sustenance of health. It sustains health

to such a degree has been called nature's perfect food. All right, these two beverages here, water and milk, since they are absolutely essential to human life, they're called natural. These are the natural beverages. But we humans, unlike a whole lot of other animals, drink a lot of other beverages for different reasons.

One of the very first things we drink after water and milk is something sweet. Soft drink, soda,

hot chocolate, anything sweet. And the reason is so simple.

In the very young, among the taste buds, there is a definite preference for sweetness. And so usually our parents give us something sweet when we're very young. The reason? It is pleasing. It pleases taste. We drink because it tastes good. There's no deep, probing psychological reason for that, even though they try to dazzle us with technical language. It is drunk for oral gratification. All that means is that it tastes good

and that is why we drink it. As doctrine used to say, we please a desire. We do not fulfill a need. We please a desire. And I think this is a probably the basic reason for drug usage. It teases a desire. It makes one feel good, but there's no need for that. This is necessary. All right. The next thing we're introduced to, especially here in the Western world, is coffee.

Now please watch the difference between drinking coffee and drinking these other three things up here, water, milk, and soda. The drinking of coffee has to be learned. You have to acquire taste for coffee and the reason you have to learn to drink coffee, it is not necessary and it does not taste good. Why in the name of heaven do we drink it?

The very first reason explains why we do practically everything. Curiosity.

Clearly, after the coffee is a big people drink. They drink it and don't give up any. And when we get old enough to ask, we're told we can't have it because it's not good for us, so we want some. And when we beg enough and enough and enough, somewhere along the line the mother or the father will take a little bit of coffee, cut it with milk or cream, put a little sugar in, sweeten it.

And some people, when they really acquire taste for coffee, actually believe the sugar ruins the taste.

It ruins the taste. Sugar is put into the coffee of the young because of their preference for sweetness in order to get them to drink it. So in other words, we take a sip, we slate our curiosity. We are doing what the big people do. That, by the way, is your first step out of infancy, doing something that big people do.

The second reason coffee is drunk is simply because it's customary. The drinking of tea is customary in Ireland, Scotland and England and so on, and drink drinking of coffee perfectly customary year. In fact,

the coffee break is so customary it's written into some labor management contracts here in the United States. And as Doc Green used to say, an A a meeting without a coffee urn is perhaps a serious break.

Individuality.

There is a certain social aspect to the drinking of coffee. Why do we have a coffee break? So that people can sit around, have conversation while they're having a cup of coffee. You don't drink coffee usually through the day because you're thirsty, but simply because it is the coffee break and everyone sits around has one. All right, Now we come at long last to alcohol, the great mysterious thing. Why do people drink?

People drink for a whole lot of reasons, but they're just as simple as all of these. They're just as simple and completely uncomplicated as all the rest. The drinking of alcohol is a learned process, just like the drinking of coffee is a learned process. It is not necessary and it doesn't taste good. It comes in beverage form that normally is not acceptable, especially to young pilots. We have to acquire

a taste for alcoholic beverages. Some people drink it all their lives and never acquire taste for it,

but they drink it anyway, which is a little bit perverse, for starters. Anyway, why do people drink alcohol #1 curiosity. It's a big people drink. Even the law says in some places used to be universal in the United States couldn't drink it. They were 21. Then it became 18. Now it's back to 19 or some places and so on and so forth.

So somewhere along the line you're going to taste alcoholic beverages. That law is a rather crazy sort of a thing. Anyway, have any of you in this room ever heard anybody? Or have you ever said yourself, let's say you're 1516 years old

and you're at a high school dancing. Somebody says how about a beer and say, Gee, I'd love to have one, but I can't. It's illegal. I'm 21.

It is so selling, no one pays attention. We have all tasted alcoholic beverages before our 21st year. We we satisfy that curiosity. Somewhere along the line, somebody will take a little whiskey for a little water or ice in it to cut it, a little sugar to sweeten it.

I used to say a little garbage to make it pretty. We call that a cocktail. Take a sip. You're doing just with the big people do. And this too, we associate with adulthood. Your first step out of infancy is a sip of coffee. Your first step into the adult world of the macho human being is drinking booze,

and I think that some so-called adults are still children at heart. We, for some reason or other, think that drinking alcohol is somehow the manly, the adult thing to do. A little bit crazy. Custom dictates the use of alcohol. Ladies and gentlemen, alcohol has been associated with hundreds of human traditions and customs. It is customary to drink at weddings. We toast the bride and champagne,

and if there are any of you at whose heartstrings romance still tugs,

you know the word honeymoon comes from booze. In the Scandinavian countries, they celebrate weddings for a lunar month of complete moon, 28 days

during that month that moon they drink a beverage called Need Mead, which is an alcoholic beverage made out of honey. If you can imagine that this month this moon is called, then the marriage month or the honeymoon.

Now, if you can imagine drinking that for 28 days,

maybe you can appreciate the expression. The honeymoon is over at the end.

It is customary to drink at birth, death, weddings, wakes, celebrations, graduations, anniversaries, feast days, holy days, holidays, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays. We're coming to Christmas. Eggnog is a traditional Christmas thing.

Mold wine in England.

I think they had something in Dickens Christmas Carol about Bob Cratchit having a little bit of wine to share with his family man the Tom and Jerry. We have the mint Julep around May associated with the Kentucky Derby. I saw that on the cover of an airline magazine. May I meant Jules. We have the Tom Collins in summer, etcetera, and the Apple

line of Germany, the October fest, you know, when the wines are brought in the bank and so on and so on and so forth. It is customary to drink alcohol

associated with highlights of human life, and it has been for centuries. Conviviality, good Lord, Alcohol produces a whole lot more conviviality than than coffee. In fact, the Jews refer to wine as the gift of God that gladdens the hearts of men. Wine is always associated with joyous occasions.

It does produce conviviality and it produces it in a very physical way which will see in a minute.

It does make people kind of happy.

It is drunk for escape. Now

here's where the professionals have so dazzled us with that. He's drinking to escape. There's nothing wrong with that. You know why I have a sweater on? The night's cold out.

It is so natural to seek to escape the unpleasant by substituting the pleasant for it.

Thirsty. Take a drink of water, it's cold. You put on a sweater, it rains, you come in.

To seek to escape unpleasant things is the most normal natural thing on earth my friends. Alcohol provides escape from unpleasant things and many people drink it for that. The anxieties of the day. Men and women for generations have had a pre dinner cocktail or a paratise as they call it in Europe.

It relaxes you for one of the most important events of the day,

evening meal, which you eat together, which is a social, convivial type of happening. It is the gift of God that gladdens the hearts of men, and for those who can, who, for those who can take it. Alcohol has proven to be a fine escape. Some people escape the tensions of life or the vacation, a day off, jogging, running. It's probably normal and ordinary to seek to escape unpleasantness

by substituting pleasantness,

sometimes unplugged. This can take the form of husbands, wives, jobs, kids, bosses, anything

and it's marvelous escape from the anyway, pain.

Pain used to be a major reason why people drink. Have you ever used the expression boy, he was feeling no pain with that's been said for centuries. He's feeling no pain. And my friends, there is a biochemical reason for this. Alcohol is a painkiller.

It kills pain. It really, really does. But we have infinitely better painkillers than alcohol today. So that's not quite a valid reason for overdrinking. Especially. I've always said if somebody you work with comes in at 8:30 in the morning drunk and you ask him why and he looks at you and says receding gums, that is not a very valid reason for being drunk at 8:30 in the morning.

We simply have better painkillers than alcohol. So that's kind of a

as always say, you know, there's an ad says give your call to contact. It'll be a whole lot more pleasant to give it to old Granddad.

Euphoria is the 6th and final and most sensible, normal, ordinary reason why everybody drinks beverage. Alcohol, ladies and gentlemen. Euphoria is a Greek word that means a sense of well-being. People drink alcohol because it makes them feel good.

Alcohol does what no other beverage does. It makes you feel good.

King's ransoms have been spent trying to find well, why does he drink? Why does she drink? That is the basic, basic reason. This is why the human being will spend 250 on an exotic cocktail when he could buy a case

of root beer for the same price. The reason is so simple. One martini does what all the root beer in the world can't do. Makes field root. Makes field good. Now why do you wanna feel good now? Psychiatrist can have their day,

but why do people drink basically and fundamentally to feel good and you can couple that with any of these other things. It's a wedding. You could choose to drink ginger ale to toast the bride and you would be taking part in the ceremony and the tradition. But if you have a couple of smashes of champagne,

you not only please the bride, you please yourself. You feel good. What is there about this magic substance that makes you feel well, what is it? Basically, it's a chemical composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. C2H5O is the chemical formula for the type of alcohol that we drink.

Now, this will not degenerate into a chemistry lesson. I don't know any chemistry. I know just about as much as the average layman. We all know that H2O is water. I think we have all come to learn that K9 P comes from the South end of a dog. But I believe that that would be the expense of the knowledge that most of us have. And the only reason I mention that H2O is we're going to see a little bit about it later.

C2H5OH, A carbohydrate.

It's a quick source of energy, but it is not a food. Alcohol is not a food. What it's in may be. Beer, for example, comes from grain. Beer is 5%, alcohol the rest, the other 95%, may contain foodstuffs and so on. But alcohol, no. Alcohol is handled by one organ of the human body, the liver,

and it handles it at the rate of 3/4 of an ounce an hour.

About now, you can either accelerate nor decelerate that process. There's no such thing as a hangover cure.

The only thing you get when you give black coffee to a drunk, there's a wide awake drunk. All of these things do nothing. Alcohol is handled by the liver at a steady rate, approximately an out an hour. What is it?

Solvent? Any decent cleaner for example has alcohol in it. It has been known to remove

stains from desks, desks, stomachs, paychecks, ankles, careers, marriages, families and lives. Most Alcoholics died because they don't receive proper treatment. This is the best solvent known.

It's an irritant.

You cut yourself and spill little alcohol on the cup. You will move quickly.

It has been looked upon as a stimulant, but it isn't. And we look upon it as a stimulant because of nutty things people do when they drink it and people do wacky things when they drink. There's a fellow in a a, his standard reply to waiters or waitresses who asked him, would you care for a drink?

He always says no thank you, I'm allergic to it. And one day a waitress said, what do you mean by that? He said when I drink, I break out in spots, Houston, Anchorage, New York. He does nutty things when he drinks. People do that. And for that reason, people have looked on alcohol as a stimulant. Actually it isn't. It's an antiseptic. And there's always purify your arm or your leg or wherever else they stick needles into you

before they give you the needle. It's an anesthetic. It's a poor anesthetic, but for centuries it's the only one we had. You hear a lot of garbage from pulpits about the moment in which the Roman soldiers offered a sponge full of cheap wine to Christ on the cross. That was meant as an act of simple human kindness to alleviate his pain.

Cheap, almost vinegary wine into which they mixed another drug called myrrh

was standard equipment with those Roman soldiers and had to execute people. They gave him a bang of that and then nailed them and waited for them to die. It helped to keep down the screening.

Basically, in its drinkable form, the chemical C2H5O is a sedative drug

and alcoholism is addiction to that drug. Now that's this whole talk in one sentence. Is there any Alcoholics in the room? And you've wondered what's wrong with you? That's what's wrong.

An alcoholic is one who is addicted to a sedative drug. Now how do we know that?

What is addiction? Everybody uses a word of books written about it.

I think that addiction is a mystery. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody knows what life is. Nobody knows what God is. You know what we do with mysteries?

We look and we describe what we're looking at. That's called a descriptive definition. Thousands of books been written about electricity. Nobody really knows what it is, when they've torn atoms apart and everything. We know enough about it to make lights to power nuclear submarines with it. But no one knows what it is.

What's life? We know the difference between a live dog and a dead dog. The principle of life is gone from the dead dog. We know enough about life to prolong it. We know enough about it to alleviate some of its miseries and to cure others. No one knows what it is. What do we know about God?

Well, a little bit, but it's practically nothing. We see God through what he's done. We look and we describe what we're looking at, But everything we know about God is always in negative terms. We tell what he's not. He is in Senate, which simply means he's not like us. He's not finite, and so on. What's addiction?

We don't know. What we know about it is what we see. In all addiction there are two main characteristics #1 is compulsive use The addict uses. Unlike everybody else, he has no control over his uses. He always drinks too much.

Arlington. Now there are five basic addictions, narcotics, alcohol, food, gambling and work. What we're interested in is the drinking

now. I told him not to drink and he got drunk. He got drunk.

The alcoholic doesn't want to drink as much the dog. I have always used this as a thumbnail definition of the alcoholic. I've always used this on brand new people who are wondering whether they are or not. They you know you don't want to be one, but just answer this question honestly. Forget about limitations imposed by husband, wife, child or parent. Forget all that. Just answer this question honestly.

Have you ever, in your entire life Ever

drunk more than you determined you were going to drink?

I am not talking about, well, I think I'll have a couple tonight and then, you know, it's a class reunion or surprise birthday party. You drink 4 instead of three. I'm not talking about that at all.

Have you ever seriously determined I will not drink more than? Have you ever gone over that? Just yes or no.

If your answer is yes more than once, that indicates compulsion. The alcoholic literally drinks against his will. You did not intend to drink more than three and you wind up on a four day binge. That's compulsion. The 2nd characteristic is progression. What that means is this,

unless and until the drinking is stopped completely, it can only get worse.

It can only get worse.

Once contracted, all compulsion lasts until death. There is no such thing as a cured alcoholic. Now, there's a great big thing in a a the difference between recovered and recover ring.

I think the whole bloody thing is a waste of words. Recovered means you've gotten well. Doesn't mean you can't get Weller, it just means you've gotten over your illness. People who say that they're recovered are not implying that they're cured at all.

I compare recovery from alcoholism like recovery from a broken bone. I think that while you're in the hospital and while you're wearing a kiss, you are recovering. But when they take it off, you're you're well. Doesn't mean you can't break it again,

and once you recover from alcoholism, doesn't mean you can't get drunk again. Just means that for now, you've gotten well, all right.

Once there, it lasts until death. What that means is if you can reactivate it by drinking again

and #2 it gets worse until death.

The baffling mystery of alcoholism is that somehow or other, it progresses whether you drink or not. Now, I'm not going to try to explain that. We'll just try to comment on it later. Alcoholism is addiction to a sedative drug. Now, we have seen at least a layman's definition of addiction. It's a phenomenon whereby someone uses a substance compulsively,

and once he contracts that

affliction, it lasts until death and it gets worse. All right, now let's go back to the first statement. Alcohol is sending a drug.

How we prove that, that's a statement. And Doc Green and that magnificent simplicity of his. He says communication can take place in any number of ways, but you learned this when you studied English in first year high school. The most powerful way to communicate to anybody is through comparison and contrast. You can show someone, for example, the beauty of gratitude

by showing the ugliness of ingratitude, contrast.

Or if you want, if you know something I don't know and you want to communicate it to me, compare it with something that I do know. And that's what Dodd Green does. He shows that alcohol is a sedative drug by comparing its actions to the action of another accepted anesthetic sedative drug eater. All right, now we're all familiar with the word ether. We know what it is. Metastatic use in hospitals.

I, I don't think that there's any, but I don't know what ether is.

And I think that most of us would accept the fact that we could refer to an anesthetized rabbit as the ether. Funny.

And I promise that that's the last of that.

Anyway,

I remember once giving this chalk talk in Annapolis, MD to a group of

military and civilian personnel from

an eastern region, and when this talk was over,

a an old German biochemist came up and explained why ether and alcohol do the same thing. I went through all the comparison that Doc Green had gone through, and then this man came up

and just put a formula on the board and show why they do exactly the same thing, C2H5O. We'll go back to the chemistry now is a molecule of ethyl alcohol the kind we drink? And this little man came back up to the blackboard after the talk was over. He said, let me show you why. And he wrote C2H5OH on the boards as I've written it right here just now. And he said, do you know what ether is? I said no. He said it is two of them,

HOC 2H5.

So he said ether is twice as strong as alcohol. But he said even more than that. In ether there is no H2O and he plotted out the middle here, the two agents in there, the formula for ether C2H5 O C2H5. So he concluded by saying

ether is twice the strength of alcohol, but it's undiluted.

What I say is ether is a double shot without a chaser, which makes it a little understandable. And it's perfectly true. That's exactly. In other words, these two do exactly the same thing, except ether does it quicker. Now let's take a look at it. What does ether do? If you've ever been in a hospital, if you ever undergone, I can remember in the eighth grade, I have my tonsils out and they used ether. The very first thing that happens

is a kind of dryness in the throat.

Intel, you see, is very absorbent of moisture and it absorbs the moisture from the mucous membranes of the throat. Now, if you've ever undergone surgery, after two or three inhalations, you simply want to pull the mask off and just gulp in fresh air, bringing in.

And of course, after a little teeny bit, you begin to feel this strange thing that we call you.

You feel good.

Why?

Let's begin at the beginning,

what Zachary said. Let's take an adult and give him ether, and then we will take an adult and give him alcohol. We will see that both do the same thing. But before he went into that, the dryness of the throat, before he So he said, what's an adult? What's a mature person? Everybody in the room has some sort of definition.

Cardinal Newman's classic definition of a gentleman, one who does not consciously cause pain. I think you have to have a certain amount of maturity to fit that definition.

An adult certainly is someone who is sensitive to the sensitivities of other people.

What is an adult? All those definitions are perfectly valid and are accurate. Doctor dreams definition was an adult is someone who functions in life according to the formula I / E. Intellect governs emotions. Actually, we don't govern our emotions. But what he's trying to say is what Thomas Aquinas calls us

Man is a rational animal that normally his functioning and his actions are dictated by reason

rather than his feelings in the main. All right, he says, now please, let's watch what happens to that formula I / e when we introduce a drug to the brain that governs that formula. All right, the human brain. We are all familiar with the fact that the brain is an organ inside the head.

It is composed of certain parts and those parts control functions.

The outermost part of the brain is where we have reason, intellect, the seat of judgment. Beneath that your emotions, your imagination, your memory. As you go deeper into the brain, you find obviously is more protected and it governs more delicate things. The motor activity of the body that the movement of all the inner workings of everything that goes on. Your sense of coordination is where it's visible. The semi voluntary functions, some of the functions of the human body, we have control over it sometime,

other times we don't. The blinking of your eyes, at times you can control it, at times you can't. You just blink instinctively when wind brings dust towards your eye. There are the purely involuntary functions like the action of your intestines, the action of your stomach as it handles food. And then you have the inner most smallest, most protected part of the brain governs those functions that we consider to be essential to life. The Latin word for life is Vita, and what is essential to life obviously is therefore vital.

Anything that is vital has to do with your life. Sorry. What happens to that brain and the formula I / e that is within it when you drug it? What happens to the brain when you drug it? All right, I know this sounds simplistic. This is not meant to be a science lecture. I don't know that much. All we do know is that

usually an anesthetic will hit the whole brain,

but step by step. This is what Doc Green is trying to describe.

If ether were given slowly and put into a human system gradually. The dryness in the throat, now you feel euphoria. He gives an almost mathematical formula for Is a man going to put a knife to your belly? And you feel great? Why do you feel good in a situation that would normally terrify you if you weren't half anesthetized? This is the simplest reason of all

I / E except after D add a drug to the brain. The first part that gets hit is the first part is vulnerable. What controls reasons? The watchdog is asleep. The worry work is gone. You feel good because the drug just put to sleep. What would make you feel bad?

So it's I over reaccept after D. Now watch what the drug does to the intellect, puts it to sleep and liberates the emotion.

When there's no control over your feelings, they come out. You have a reversal of a formula. It's now E over I and you enter in excitement stage. You enter an excitement stage.

The important thing to remember is this. When the emotions come out, they come out drugged. You see, that's the next part of the brain that gets hit.

My friends, you are not watching emotional, but supposing you entered

an operating room and they were anesthetizing a patient and they stopped it right here and you looked at someone who was entering an excitement stage and they're badly insane, goofy things. You're not watching emotional behavior.

You're watching drugged

emotional behavior. What sense would it make if you were standing beside your mother? Let's say she's on operating table that would be operated on. They stopped the anesthetic here and she's saying very crazy things. How many of you would say good heaven? She needs a psychiatrist.

She's on the influence of ether. Suddenly the psychiatrist is tall.

But just hold on to that thought for a minute. You may or may not get sick here. I don't know what you've ever walked by a hospital and just gotten a whiff of ether, but it's it's nauseating, terribly nauseating. Now, if you're in an excitement stage with the danger of nausea, that's just the word.

It is dangerous. So they don't keep you here very long. They just kind of slam you through there,

capture a bit, you hit a stage of pre anesthesia, you're out. What happens is the brain is being drugged from outside in, your intellect is gone, the emotions are goofy, the motor activity or since coordination is all affected you could see a written. Not theoretically. You very well could hurt yourself

if they did not shoot you through that. That's why that sheet is wrapped very tightly around you. That's why they're all standing there and that's why they slam you through this. In fact, what they do today is they give you a needle before you leave your room. You're a little bit gone by the time you get down there. Alright, when the semi voluntary functions are gone, you literally cannot open your eyelids. They call that pre anesthesia and it is pre anesthesia because you can't yet be operated on be too dangerous. You'd feel the pain

when the brain is sedated down to hear your your anesthetized.

When the involuntary functions go, you're in a state of anesthesia. You can now be operated on. Now watch the only thing you have left, your vital functions, your heartbeat and your breathing. When they go, you do. Death is the next step. Many, many anise. Well, anesthesiologists are MD's who do nothing but this is that important. They can even operate on that brain while they have it out and I'll bring on your heart. They can do practically anything.

What happens when you come out of it? You go through the same process in reverse from anesthesia to pre anesthesia. You'll be sick,

you undergo an exciting stage, but you will not feel very good. Obviously you've just had surgery. Phase number. Watch this please

cross out either

substitute alcohol.

It does exactly the same thing. I'm not talking about alcoholism. For people who are brand new this program and you feel threatened by it, forget it. I'm not talking about alcohol isn't talking about drinking. This is what happens when anyone ingests beverage alcohol. You notice that you don't notice the dryness, you notice the burning in the throat. You remember your first shot of straight whiskey.

It wasn't a taste, it was a sensation.

The tears are coming down your cheek. Why? It's highly absorbent of moisture. It dries out the mucous membranes of your throat. And then being an irritant in the earth. Don't you know what happens when you shave your face and then put some aftershave lotion that has alcohol in on its things? That's in fact what happens in your throat.

They are very sensitive membranes. That's why we drink chasers after straight shot.

Use the expression here. What Your whistle like another dumb expression. Alcohol doesn't let your whistle, it drives it. The chaser wets your whistle anyways. What happens when you drink? You feel is burning in the throat and then you feel good. Why is old granddad a little more pleasant than contact? Because it adds as you fly. You've all heard people make jokes about it. Have a hot toddy. I don't know what the hot toddy does except makes you forget the symptoms of the cold.

You've got the cold, but it doesn't bother you

much.

You feel good and you enter an excitement stage. Alright, what happens? Alcohol is handled at the rate of an ounce an hour. Suppose you drink 6 ounces in 20 minutes. All right, The liver handles one the first hour. The rest gets in the bloodstream for subsequent trips. When the blood brings it to the brain, the alcohol begins to sedate the brain. How do we know that? Simple observation,

Doc Green says. Don't you know when you're in the presence of people drinking, you don't need to come into a classroom. Find that out,

there's somebody very drunk. He's gonna stagger,

yes, from a very drunky standards, but in the beginning you notice that in the motor activity, that slowness of the blinking of the eyelids, the tongue becomes thick. It's a major production to light a cigarette. The hand weaves a little bit, getting the key in the ignition. And whether you're alcoholic or not, whether you like it or not, drinkers who drive are a danger to human life. And probably having non alcoholic who drinks has done that without even thinking.

Ladies and gentlemen, the physical impossibility to drink and function right, It can't be done.

Good morning. They've made movies out in Los Angeles. There's another one from Canada they used up in Canada. They used professional racing drivers gave them two shots of whiskey. For those of you who can hold it and your big drinkers, they gave professionals two shots of whiskey and put them behind the wheels of their car. They were knocking the pylons down and kind of cursing because they knew this shouldn't be happening. But their reflexes were about 1/2 of a second behind time. The brain was telling them what they ought to do, but the but the reaction was that much slower

activity was being affected. But anyways, you feel good because alcohol pushed to sleep. What would make you feel bad when alcohol gets the brain begins to put it to sleep. So it's I overeat, except after a ADD drug. Alcohol put the intellect to sleep, release the emotions and what you see is drugged emotional behavior. And here's where everybody makes a mistake in the treatment of the alcoholic.

We would not dream of sending our mother under the influence of ether to a psychiatrist, but we send loved ones or patients

under the influence of alcohol to us. The kind of doesn't make sense. What am I trying to say?

Answer this question is an easy one. How would you know if your mother needs care for her emotional problems? Wouldn't you say the obvious? We'll get the ether out of her, certainly see what she really is. And then if she needs help, she needs help. Same way with the with the alcoholic. Some Alcoholics need deeper therapy after they get sober. But there's the clue after they get sober.

Doc Green in 6000 patients, he said. I have found that some Alcoholics after they get sober do need care. The percentage of Alcoholics who need professional help after they recover is exactly the same as the percentage of non Alcoholics. Ladies and gentlemen, alcoholism is a biochemical addiction to a drug. Now, if you were nuts before you started to use it, you'll be a little wackier after you quit

with the drinking but here, and you will of course need help.

But many, even professionals, look at the results of the drinking and conclude that they're the causes. Well, of course he's drinking here. He's now gone. He's a maniac. He's a maniac because he's drinking.

A little child knows that all of these things are the results of the drinking, not the cause, and you wipe out the drinking you want. Why is he working against? He doesn't drink.

Why is he invited back into people's health? He doesn't drink. You've removed the cause of all these. A little kid knows that. Ladies and gentlemen, I did this in my home not too long ago.