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The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
William Duncan Silkworth (July 22, 1873 – March 22, 1951) was an American physician and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism.He was director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time William Griffith Wilson, a future co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on four occasions for alcoholism.
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...
The work is presented as a primary source in classes on American history to teach about the temperance movement. [23] One social studies teacher said he uses it because the progression of alcoholism depicted closely matches the message of anti-drug programing in schools such as D.A.R.E. Students have compared the simplistic " just say no ...
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
In post-Prohibition 1930s America, it was common to perceive alcoholism as a moral failing, and the medical profession standards of the time treated it as a condition that was likely incurable and lethal. [3] Those without financial resources found help through state hospitals, the Salvation Army, or other charitable societies and religious groups.
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was established in 1918 [1] and became a leading organization working for the repeal of prohibition in the United States.It was the first group created to fight Prohibition, also known as the 18th Amendment.
Richard Rogers Peabody (23 January 1892 – 26 April 1936) was an American psychotherapist who specialized in alcoholism. Peabody grew up as a member of the upper class in Boston , Massachusetts. He attended Groton , where his grandfather was headmaster, and later enrolled at Harvard as had many of his family before him.