"Wisdom beyond time."
"In my judgement such of us who have never fallen victims (to alcoholism) have been spared more by the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. Indeed, I believe if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and ttheir hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into the vice-the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.
The victums should be pitied and compassioned, just as are the heirs of consumption and other hereditary diseases. Their failing should be treated as a misfortune, and not as a crime, or even as a disgrace."
- Abraham Lincoln, in an address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, february 22, 1842
Introduction
The Australian Model of the Australian Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is adopted from the American Model founded by the first woman to recover from alcoholism, Marty Mann She traveled extensively, speaking to groups and helping to start AA chapters and branches of the National Council on Alcoholism in the United States and abroad. Click the link below for more information on this inspirational woman and back then was called the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism.
This office was opened in New York on October 2nd, 1944. Alcoholics Anonymous then was barely a decade old. Alcoholics AnonymousHaving trouble with alcohol? Does your drinking worry you? Visit aa.org.au now for more information became a tremendous contribution to the demand for Marty by publishing notices of her inspirational lecture tours in the Grapevine. Marty recognized from the very beginning that she could not change America’s attitudes about alcoholism all by herself.
Her earliest goals included establishing Community organisations which would operate “information centers” as well as procure beds in hospitals for Alcoholics whose disease was more likely to land them in jail. Marty Mann is the founder of America's Council on Alcoholism and Drug DependenceThe American National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence fights the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions. Visit ncadd.org for more information..
Marty’s timing was perfect.
Now the (ACADD) Australian Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence has adopted the same principals of education and information.
An opportunity has been created to introduce to Australia a better insight to alcoholism, addiction and treatment of these Diseases.
This comes at a time where the Australian government has created an appetite for information about alcoholism and addiction through initiatives adopted and introduced into the Australian society at all levels as a result of the National Drug SummitClick the link below to download the National Drug Summit PDF (Adobe Reader required) held in 1999.
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