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All these, and many others,
have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
2.
3.
They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon
of craving at once became paramount to all other interests so that the
important appointment was not met.
4.
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never
getting it -- at least to
our way of thinking.
5.
These men were not drinking
to escape; they were drinking to overcome a
craving beyond their mental control.
6.
Occasionally, I would yield to the morning craving, but if I did, it would be only a few hours before I would be quite unfit for work.
7.
After they have succumbed
to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with
a firm resolution not to
drink again.
8.
Of course an alcoholic ought to be freed from his physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological measures can be of maximum
benefit.
9.
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
10.
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
11.
There are many situations
which arise out of the phenomenon of craving which
cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight.
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