Forward:
"Theodore Van Dorn, in his book Drunk's Diary, treats
Essential matters in describing the dilemma that alcoholics suffer in the
Chronicity of their illness. This volume is well organized; the case histories in his book could well  Describe Mr. Van Dorn's own life, a life leading insanity or death, had he Not sought help from Alcoholics Anonymous. As a student of alcoholism, a Public Health worker for twenty years, devoting the past seven years exclusively to the field of alcoholism, my travels have taken me to Yale University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University; as the Director of a large metropolitan alcoholism program which deals with hundreds of alcoholics yearly, I can say in all sincerity that Mr. Van Dorn's book is documentary evidence that alcoholics are not hopeless and that alcoholism is a treatable illness. The author's twelve years of sobriety have been happy, fruitful years; his years as an alcoholic
can best be described as a living among the living dead.