The Digital Woman's Key Ideas from The Common Sense of Drinking
by Richard Peabody

"Alcohol for inebriates acts as a mental-nerve poison in a manner that it does not for the normal drinker, regardless of the comparative conditions of the two in the early stages of what is to be an evening's dissipation for one and a debauch for the other."

An individual becomes an alcoholic for 3 main reasons:

1. A result of inheritance he possesses a nervous system which is non-resistant to alcohol (in no sense is a direct craving transmitted from parent to offspring)
2. By reason of their early environment. Through the ignorance of their parents or from their own nervous constitution the alcoholic was either spoiled or neglected.
3. Because of the effects of their later environment. That is to say, school, college, economics and social competition, marriage, & war.

Alcoholism is a disease of immaturity, regardless of the actual age of the individual suffering from it. The drunkard is not only a child, but a spoiled child. He (or she) has far too keen a sensibility for likes & dislikes. By trying to avoid anything unpleasant and make what he cannot avoid artificially enjoyable, he (or she) reaches a state wherein he likes nothing when he (or she) is sober. He must be reeducated in a manner that will show him (or her) that, while a diversity of interests is desirable, it is not necessary nor is it possible to escape entirely from unpleasant duties.

Scientific & Spiritual treatment for the eradication of the drink habit can be successfully applied to people who have come to realize that drink has definitely disintegrated them to a point where they are no longer able to control AND enjoy themselves or their drinking. They are open to and sincerely willing to be shown how to eliminate the habit.

The treatment consists in instructing a man or woman how to train his or her mind so that they carry out a sustained course of conduct consistent with the theories of his or her most mature, intellectual self, how to form new habits and stick to them, and conversely how to eliminate the unsatisfactory method of trying to adapt himself or herself to their environment through the medium of alcohol. The treatment consists mainly of unlearning old ideas & beliefs, the acceptance of new ideas, beliefs & ways of perceiving their environment, as well as be aware of the pitfalls one can fall back in.