The Pursuit of Solutions Over Causative Factors – 1962 – Jack S.
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Jack S. traces his path from a 'cardboard jungle' on the streets of Louisville to 32 years of sobriety. He dismantles the idea of searching for 'causative factors' in psychiatric books arguing instead for the gritty immediate solutions found in the rooms.
He recounts a youth spent trading gasoline for whiskey and cigarettes at a Gulf station a series of 28 arrests for public drunkenness and a bottom that left him malnourished and toothless in a back room of a saloon. He maps out the intervention of a stranger and a father who had long since given up on him leading to a psychiatric hospital stay and a collision with the 'ass-kicking' style of old-timer sponsorship. Jack emphasizes the necessity of surrender and the simple repetitive discipline of the first year—don't drink go to meetings and get in the damn car—which eventually allowed him to build a career in occupational health and a lasting marriage to Gay G.
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