William Duncan Silkworth

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American doctor

United States DoctorsLived 1873 to 1951 · aged 78

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William Duncan Silkworth was an American physician and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism. He was director of the Charles B. ), was admitted on four occasions for alcoholism. Dr.

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William Duncan Silkworth was an American physician 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, a future co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on four occasions for alcoholism. Dr. 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.

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