SEE Magazine, September 1949 issue. Swimsuit model
Linda Lombard is on the cover. This issue features a five-page article
on Alcoholics Anonymous entitled "Medical Care for Alcoholics:
Brooklyn hospital maintains special de-alcoholization ward for
patients". It mentions AA's effectiveness in classifying
alcoholism as a disease, and provides and introduction and overview of
the beginning of the organization in the text. It also shows a
five-page photo essay (with a staged actor to preserve anonymity) of a
complete case study, starting in a bar with an AA veteran suggesting
treatment to the main character. It shows scenes from St. John's
Hospital, the various stages of intake and treatment and at the end,
the patient is shown at an AA meeting telling his story.
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