Chalk Talks on Alcohol (Quicksilver Book)

This no-nonsense guide to understanding and recovering from alcoholism provides new hope for alcoholics, their families, and friends. Hard-won experiences -- Father Martin is a recovering alcoholic -- underlies this thorough yet always clear presentation. Chalk Talks sheds new light upon the complex problems of alcoholism, which affects the mind, body, soul, and emotions. Father Martin does not preach or moralize but remains practical in discussing attitudes toward, and reasons for, alcoholism; the physiological/psychological effects; health problems; symptoms; intervention; treatment and support; and where to turn for further information and assistant. Chalk Talks is not a scientific treatise but a message of hope to all persons concerned with America's number-one health problem.

Fr. Joseph C. Martin is the founder of Ashley, an addiction treatment center in Havre de Grace, Maryland. His lectures on alcoholism and his film "Chalk Talk on Alcohol" have been widely used in federal, state, and private rehabilitation programs.