William Duncan Silkworth 249454 222787467 2008-07-01T03:02:36Z Dakinijones 4943078 Removed category "Addiction"; Quick-adding category "Drug addiction" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) '''William Duncan Silkworth''', M.D., ([[1873]]?-[[1951]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[medical doctor]] and specialist in the treatment of [[alcoholism]]. He was Director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in [[New York City]] in the 1930s, during which time [[William Griffith Wilson|Bill Wilson]], a future co-founder of the mutual-help movement [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] (A.A.), was admitted on three separate occasions for alcoholism. Silkworth had a profound influence on Wilson and encouraged him to realize that alcoholism was more than just an issue of moral weakness. He introduced Wilson to the idea that alcoholism had a pathological, [[disease]]-like basis. William Silkworth wrote the letters in the chapter titled "The Doctor's Opinion" in the book ''Alcoholics Anonymous.'' == External links == *[http://silkworth.net/silkworth/silkworth.html Writings, articles, letters and documents of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth] {{DEFAULTSORT:Silkworth, William Duncan}} [[Category:Alcohol abuse]] [[Category:Twelve-step programs]] [[Category:1873 births]] [[Category:1951 deaths]] [[Category:Drug addiction]] [[de:William Duncan Silkworth]]